[maemo-developers] Hibernation of applications during ptrace

[From: Philip Van Hoof]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:55 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:

> You're just not pressing the "Enter" one more time after you type
> "cont"?  If your application crashes, the enter waiting in Gdb
> readline buffer will then cause Gdb immediately to repeat the previous
> command and continue the process (which then promptly exits)...
> 
> This is very annoying Gdb behaviour, it should empty readline
> buffer before getting new input from the developer.


No that's not the problem that I'm experiencing. I also experienced this
once the application was about to hit a breakpoint. Sometimes
immediately after hitting it. 


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