On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Some notes on the above: > > The same happens with both the previous version and current snapshot of the >cygwin dll. It also happens with both current gdb and an old gdb >6.8.0.20080328-cvs that I have lying around. > > The hw.exe in question is your bog-standard hello world, compiled with "-g >-O0" using gcc4-4.5.3-3. > > "kill -9" won't kill gdb; I have to use Windows task manager. If I've >attached gdb to the hung gdb, I can kill it from there using the "k" >instruction. > > Anyone else having similar problems?
You're probably seeing a known bug in gdb where it no longer works well when run from a console window. There is a race where gdb tries to get tty information from a stopped cygwin process. Although I didn't introduce the problem, I have tried to fix it from time to time without much luck. Debugging from mintty will probably work better. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
