GDB Interrupts on Cygwin

[Dave Korn]

On 17 March 2006 08:55, Doug Bohl wrote:

> When running a Windows application from GDB,

> Ctrl-C
> supposedly sends the SIGINT signal to GDB, breaking the running
> application and restoring control to GDB.  However, this does not
> appear to work, at least not on Cygwin.
> 
> I've tried /bin/kill -f -s SIGINT pid.  Sending SIGINT, or in fact any
> other signal, simply terminates the Windows application.

  It's not entirely surprising that windows applications aren't aware of
cygwin signal handling!

  Have you tried running it with a mingw (i.e. windows native) version of gdb?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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