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-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/defs.h =================================================================== --- gdb-7.7.90.20140613.orig/gdb/defs.h 2014-06-13 23:10:18.876623018 +0200 +++ gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/defs.h 2014-06-13 23:10:52.450660505 +0200 @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ extern void set_quit_flag (void); /* Flag that function quit should call quit_force. */ extern volatile int sync_quit_force_run; +extern int quit_flag_cleanup; extern int immediate_quit; extern void quit (void); Index: gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.7.90.20140613.orig/gdb/top.c 2014-06-13 23:10:15.910619715 +0200 +++ gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/top.c 2014-06-13 23:10:18.877623020 +0200 @@ -1378,7 +1378,9 @@ quit_force (char *args, int from_tty) if (ex.reason < 0) \ exception_print (gdb_stderr, ex) - /* 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; /* Get out of tfind mode, and kill or detach all inferiors. */ DO_TRY Index: gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/utils.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.7.90.20140613.orig/gdb/utils.c 2014-06-13 23:10:18.878623021 +0200 +++ gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/utils.c 2014-06-13 23:10:38.307644652 +0200 @@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ int job_control; int immediate_quit; +/* Nonzero means we are already processing the quitting cleanups and we should + no longer get aborted. */ + +int quit_flag_cleanup; + /* 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.) */ Index: gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/extension.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.7.90.20140613.orig/gdb/extension.c 2014-06-13 03:59:36.000000000 +0200 +++ gdb-7.7.90.20140613/gdb/extension.c 2014-06-13 23:11:32.434704853 +0200 @@ -817,6 +817,9 @@ check_quit_flag (void) int i, result = 0; const struct extension_language_defn *extlang; + if (quit_flag_cleanup) + return 0; + ALL_ENABLED_EXTENSION_LANGUAGES (i, extlang) { if (extlang->ops->check_quit_flag != NULL)