rdi debugger dies and ctrl-c stops working

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:12:45AM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have a Jeeni debugger which occasionally hangs. When this
>> happens while the target is running ctrl-c can't be used to
>> grab a hold of gdb. I know gdb hasn't crashed though because
>> ctrl-c causes a packet to be sent out on ethernet to the Jeeni.
>> Is there another signal I can send to gdb to cause it to abort
>> the rdi connection and put me back at the prompt?
> 
> 
> In my experience that happens when the Jeeni and the ARM debug
> macro cell have gotten out of sync (e.g. the CPU has been
> reset).  Even if you could get gdb back to the command prompt,
> I think you'd still have to reset the Jeeni and start over.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to get gdb's attention without
> having to kill it from another window or put it into background
> and do a "kill %1".


remote.c counts cntrl-c.  more than one and it asks if you want to 
abandon the connection.  perhaps you could modify your gdb backend so 
that it has the same behaviour?

andrew