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-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/defs.h =================================================================== --- gdb-7.12.50.20170207.orig/gdb/defs.h 2017-02-26 21:11:35.654350580 +0100 +++ gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/defs.h 2017-02-26 21:11:52.932473129 +0100 @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ /* Flag that function quit should call quit_force. */ extern volatile int sync_quit_force_run; +#ifdef NEED_DETACH_SIGSTOP +extern int quit_flag_cleanup; +#endif + extern void quit (void); /* Helper for the QUIT macro. */ Index: gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/extension.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.12.50.20170207.orig/gdb/extension.c 2017-02-26 21:11:35.655350587 +0100 +++ gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/extension.c 2017-02-26 21:11:52.933473136 +0100 @@ -830,6 +830,11 @@ int i, result = 0; const struct extension_language_defn *extlang; +#ifdef NEED_DETACH_SIGSTOP + if (quit_flag_cleanup) + return 0; +#endif + ALL_ENABLED_EXTENSION_LANGUAGES (i, extlang) { if (extlang->ops->check_quit_flag != NULL) Index: gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.12.50.20170207.orig/gdb/top.c 2017-02-26 21:11:35.655350587 +0100 +++ gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/top.c 2017-02-26 21:11:52.933473136 +0100 @@ -1619,7 +1619,13 @@ qt.args = NULL; qt.from_tty = from_tty; +#ifndef NEED_DETACH_SIGSTOP /* We want to handle any quit errors and exit regardless. */ +#else + /* 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; +#endif /* Get out of tfind mode, and kill or detach all inferiors. */ TRY Index: gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/utils.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.12.50.20170207.orig/gdb/utils.c 2017-02-26 21:11:35.657350601 +0100 +++ gdb-7.12.50.20170207/gdb/utils.c 2017-02-26 21:11:52.934473143 +0100 @@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ int job_control; +#ifdef NEED_DETACH_SIGSTOP +/* Nonzero means we are already processing the quitting cleanups and we should + no longer get aborted. */ + +int quit_flag_cleanup; +#endif + /* Nonzero means that strings with character values >0x7F should be printed as octal escapes. Zero means just print the value (e.g. it's an international character, and the terminal or window can cope.) */