Gdb quit problem on Linux/mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:44:15PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Did anyone see the quit problem on Linux/mips with gdb 2001-07-13-cvs?
> I got
> 
> (gdb) b main
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x400744: file x.c, line 3.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /tmp/./a.out 
> 
> Breakpoint 1, main () at x.c:3
> 3         printf ("Hello\n");
> (gdb) q
> The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
> 
> It stops here. I get
> 
>  1540 pts/0    S      0:04 ./gdb ./a.out
>  1550 pts/0    T      0:00 /tmp/./a.out
> 
> # strace -p 1540
> wait4(-1,
> 
> It may be a kernel bug. I am running 2.4.3.

Yes, it's a kernel bug.  I believe this is fixed in the SGI tree; I
know it's fixed in ours (which will be available Monday or later
tonight).

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer