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Killing
the child process
The following documentation discusses the use of stopping
a process (using kill) for a program debugging with GDB.
kill
Kill the child process in
which your program is running under GDB.
This command is useful if
you wish to debug a core dump instead of a running process. GDB ignores
any core dump files while your program is running.
On some operating systems,
a program cannot be executed outside GDB while you have breakpoints set
on it inside GDB. You can use the kill
command in this situation to permit running your program outside the debugger.
The kill
command is also useful if you wish to recompile and relink your program,
since on many systems it is impossible to modify an executable file while
it is running in a process. In this case, when you next use run,
GDB notices that the file has changed, and reads the symbol table again
(while trying to preserve your current breakpoint settings).
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