2005-02-14 Jeff Johnston * top.c (gdb_readline_wrapper): Ensure terminal is gdb's before calling readline. 2007-10-14 Jan Kratochvil Port to GDB-6.7. Index: gdb-6.7/gdb/top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-6.7.orig/gdb/top.c 2007-09-02 23:13:56.000000000 +0200 +++ gdb-6.7/gdb/top.c 2007-10-14 23:38:27.000000000 +0200 @@ -795,6 +795,14 @@ gdb_readline_wrapper (char *prompt) back_to = make_cleanup (gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup, cleanup); + /* Before calling readline, ensure we have the terminal. If we don't + have the terminal and call readline, we risk the possibility of + gdb being thrown into the background. This problem occurs when + we attach to a background process on the same terminal the background + process was started from and then perform some action which requires + a page break prompt. */ + terminal_ours (); + /* Display our prompt and prevent double prompt display. */ display_gdb_prompt (prompt); rl_already_prompted = 1;