We may abort the process of detaching threads with multiple SIGINTs - which are being sent during a testcase terminating its child GDB. Some of the threads may not be properly PTRACE_DETACHed which hurts if they should have been detached with SIGSTOP (as they are accidentally left running on the debugger termination). Index: gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/defs.h =================================================================== --- gdb-6.8.50.20081128.orig/gdb/defs.h 2008-11-27 10:23:01.000000000 +0100 +++ gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/defs.h 2008-12-06 21:49:32.000000000 +0100 @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ extern char *gdb_sysroot; extern char *debug_file_directory; extern int quit_flag; +extern int quit_flag_cleanup; extern int immediate_quit; extern int sevenbit_strings; @@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ extern void quit (void); needed. */ #define QUIT { \ - if (quit_flag) quit (); \ + if (quit_flag && !quit_flag_cleanup) quit (); \ if (deprecated_interactive_hook) deprecated_interactive_hook (); \ } Index: gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/event-top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-6.8.50.20081128.orig/gdb/event-top.c 2008-12-04 10:34:31.000000000 +0100 +++ gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/event-top.c 2008-12-06 21:49:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ async_request_quit (gdb_client_data arg) is no reason to call quit again here, unless immediate_quit is set.*/ - if (quit_flag || immediate_quit) + if ((quit_flag || immediate_quit) && !quit_flag_cleanup) quit (); } Index: gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-6.8.50.20081128.orig/gdb/top.c 2008-12-04 10:23:12.000000000 +0100 +++ gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/top.c 2008-12-06 21:49:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -1299,7 +1299,9 @@ quit_force (char *args, int from_tty) qt.args = args; qt.from_tty = from_tty; - /* We want to handle any quit errors and exit regardless. */ + /* We want to handle any quit errors and exit regardless but we should never + get user-interrupted to properly detach the inferior. */ + quit_flag_cleanup = 1; catch_errors (quit_target, &qt, "Quitting: ", RETURN_MASK_ALL); Index: gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/utils.c =================================================================== --- gdb-6.8.50.20081128.orig/gdb/utils.c 2008-12-04 10:31:00.000000000 +0100 +++ gdb-6.8.50.20081128/gdb/utils.c 2008-12-06 21:49:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ int job_control; int quit_flag; +/* Nonzero means we are already processing the quitting cleanups and we should + no longer get aborted. */ + +int quit_flag_cleanup; + /* Nonzero means quit immediately if Control-C is typed now, rather than waiting until QUIT is executed. Be careful in setting this; code which executes with immediate_quit set has to be very careful