[ale] Gdb / Insight / Source Navigator and signal handling

Jay Goodman ale at goody.homelinux.net
Tue Jul 29 12:13:36 EDT 2008


handle SIGUSR1 nostop


> ALErs -
>
> I'm using 'gdb-6.6' and the corresponding 'insight' wrapper to debug a
> native GNU/Linux app. Generally this is working, but I would like to
> change one setting:
>
>   When I send a signal to my app (i.e., '$ kill -SIGUSR1 <pid>') the
>   debugger catches the signal fine and processes it as I intend, but it
>   first traps the catch. I must then manually 'continue' the processing.
>
>   Any way to turn off this trap, with or without 'insight'? (I also run
>   'gdb' under 'emacs'.) I would like to field the signal smoothly without
>   having to 'continue' the run.
>
> TIA for any suggestions.
>
>   -Mills
>
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