[RFC] gdb could leave inferior running as a background process

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Wed Apr 23 03:54:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:08:49PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Ah.  It's hard to reason about correctness in this part of gdb.  I can
> see that keep_going calls target_terminal_inferior, but the code paths
> are embedded in a big hairy state machine.  [I've seen what
> wait_for_inferior used to be, things *have* improved though.]

Sadly, it's hard to get a grip on how much of it is necessary
somewhere.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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