Discussed somewhat in the thread at
https://cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2013-06/msg00680.html
This is pretty straightforward to demonstrate on Cygwin currently:
$ cat main.c
int main()
{
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g -O0 main.c -o main
$ ./gdb ./main
[...]
(gdb) r
Starting program: /wip/binutils-gdb/build.x86_64/gdb/main
warning: SuspendThread (tid=0x1cf0) failed. (winerr 6)
[Inferior 1 (process 976) exited normally]
with this patch applied:
$ ./gdb ./main
[...]
(gdb) r
Starting program: /wip/binutils-gdb/build.x86_64/gdb/main
[Inferior 1 (process 4852) exited normally]
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-06-03 Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
* windows-nat.c (thread_rec): Also ignore ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE
from SuspendThread().
Signed-off-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
+2015-06-03 Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
+
+ * windows-nat.c (thread_rec): Also ignore ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE
+ from SuspendThread().
+
2015-06-03 Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
* windows-nat.c (handle_output_debug_string): Trim trailing '\n'
/* We get Access Denied (5) when trying to suspend
threads that Windows started on behalf of the
debuggee, usually when those threads are just
- about to exit. */
- if (err != ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)
+ about to exit.
+ We can get Invalid Handle (6) if the main thread
+ has exited. */
+ if (err != ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE
+ && err != ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)
warning (_("SuspendThread (tid=0x%x) failed."
" (winerr %u)"),
(unsigned) id, (unsigned) err);