Document pseudo-terminal and interrupting changes
This documents changes done in previous patches:
- the fact that on GNU/Linux, GDB creates a pseudo-terminal for the
inferior instead of juggling terminal settings.
- That when the inferior and GDB share the terminal, you can't
interrupt some programs with Ctrl-C.
- That on GNU/Linux, you may get "Program stopped." instead of
"Program received SIGINT" in response to Ctrl-C.
- That run+detach may result in the program dying with SIGHUP.
I was surprised that we do not currently have a node/section
specifically to talk about interrupting programs. Thus I've added a
new "Interrupting" section under the "Stopping and Continuing"
chapter, with some xrefs to other sections.
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* NEWS: Document pseudo-terminal, "tty /dev/tty" and Ctrl-C/SIGINT
changes. Document "set/show debug managed-tty".
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* gdb.texinfo (Input/Output): Document that GDB may start a
program associated with a pseudo-terminal. Document "tty
/dev/tty". Document "set/show debug managed-tty".
(Attach): Document what happens on run+detach on systems where GDB
creates a pseudo-terminal for the inferior.
(Stopping and Continuing): Add new Interrupting node.
(Background Execution): Add anchor.
(Features for Debugging MS Windows PE Executables): Add anchor.
Change-Id: I267a0f9300c7ac4d2e7f14a9ba8eabc1eafcc5a7
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