On Feb 16 10:03, David Fritz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 15 15:11, linda w wrote: > > > >>I decided to trace a 3 day long running process (the dd/bzip program) > >>that was > >>nearing completion (had a couple hundred meg to go), and much to my > >>chagrin, > >>when I wanted to stop tracing, I pressed control-c -- and unlike the > >>behavior I'm > >>used to in linux, it didn't just terminate the process being traced, but > >>also > >>terminated the program that had been attached to! > >> > >>Very very much of a bummer, since it takes 3+ days, apparently, to run > >>and come near > >>to completing this test. Very, very sad....oh well... > >> > >>Is this a "feature" or a "bug"? > > > > > >It's Windows. > > > > Indeed it is. Though I'd note that Windows XP and later allow debuggers to > detach from a process without killing it. (DebugActiveProcessStop(), > DebugSetProcessKillOnExit()).
Indeed, it's already implemented in GDB. > PTC et al. That's the spirit! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
