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-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/defs.h =================================================================== --- gdb-7.9.50.20150520.orig/gdb/defs.h 2015-05-31 18:06:24.579002757 +0200 +++ gdb-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/defs.h 2015-05-31 18:06:29.253031613 +0200 @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ 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-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/top.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.9.50.20150520.orig/gdb/top.c 2015-05-31 18:06:24.580002763 +0200 +++ gdb-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/top.c 2015-05-31 18:06:29.254031619 +0200 @@ -1463,7 +1463,9 @@ 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; /* Get out of tfind mode, and kill or detach all inferiors. */ TRY Index: gdb-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/utils.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.9.50.20150520.orig/gdb/utils.c 2015-05-31 18:06:24.582002776 +0200 +++ gdb-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/utils.c 2015-05-31 18:06:29.255031625 +0200 @@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ 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-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/extension.c =================================================================== --- gdb-7.9.50.20150520.orig/gdb/extension.c 2015-05-31 18:06:24.582002776 +0200 +++ gdb-7.9.50.20150520/gdb/extension.c 2015-05-31 18:06:29.256031632 +0200 @@ -833,6 +833,9 @@ 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)