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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to prevent gdb to send Interrupt signals to child processes Post 302279223 by klnarayana on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 06:28:45 AM
Old 01-22-2009
How to prevent gdb to send Interrupt signals to child processes
Hi,

I have a program which invokes child processes and communicates with the processes. When I run the program under gdb and say interrupt, all the child processes are dying. Here I am not interested in debugging the child processes. But I don't want my child processes to be killed as my parent process dies as soon as the child process is killed. Also I have no access to the child process code for any modifications. My assumption is that gdb sends interrupt signals to child processes because of which they are dying (but I am not sure about this).

I have tried "handle sigint nopass" on gdb. But it did not work for me.Please let me know if there is any way to prevent gdb to send interrupt signals to child processes.

Thanks in advance,
klnarayana
 

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RUNLIM(1)						      General Commands Manual							 RUNLIM(1)

NAME

       runlim - a program to run benchmarks

SYNOPSIS

       runlim [ options  ...]  command	[ arguments  ...]

DESCRIPTION

       run  is	a  tool  that  can be used to run and control benchmarks.  It executes a given command with (optional) arguments, samples resource
       usage during the run, and kills the process (and its child processes) if a certain time and/or space limit is exhausted.

       Every 100 milliseconds, runlim takes a sample of the program's resource utilization, and logs status information to  stderr  every  second.
       Optionally, the status can be logged to a file.

       Multi-threaded programs can be limited by setting a wall clock timeout.	runlim follows the time accumulation scheme of GNU time for multi-
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       interested in walk clock time.

OPTIONS

       runlim accepts the following options:

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --version
	      Show version of program.

       -o FILE, --output-file=FILE
	      Overwrite or create FILE for output logging.

       -s NUM, --space-limit=NUM
	      Set space limit to NUM megabytes.

       -t NUM, --time-limit=NUM
	      Set time limit to NUM seconds.

       -r NUM, --real-time-limit=NUM
	      Set real time limit to NUM seconds.

       -k, --kill
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SEE ALSO

       time(1), timelimit(1), timeout(1), time(7).

AUTHOR

       runlim was written by Armin Biere and Toni Jussila.

       This manual page was written by Thomas Krennwallner <tkren@kr.tuwien.ac.at>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

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