That's all I needed to know. So in order for the process I'm attaching gdb to to terminate on its own I must not use anything that ends up in a windows dll.
In the mingw/msys sources (msys\rt\src\newlib\libc\sys\go32\sleep.c) I found a sleep impl (DJ Delorie, 1991) that emulates the sleep functionality using repeated time() calls. no windows dll there - just what the doctor ordered. thanks for all your help. H. "Dave Korn" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 20 September 2006 16:06, Hans Horn wrote: > >> The real question is as to why the parent process needs to go into a >> while(1) loop in order to produce the desired trace. > > Because then you're running in the program code, whereas in the sleep > function you've ended up in a windows dll function and ... > >>> Note that if the process is stopped in a Windows DLL the stack trace >>> will probably not be very informative. > > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > -- 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/
