Get rid of "quit anyway" prompt using GDB: Just kill the process and quit
GdbGdb Problem Overview
Consider:
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.
Inferior 1 [process 9018] will be killed.
Quit anyway? (y or n) y
What is a .gdbinit
option to make GDB always kill the running process at a quit request?
I know that GDB can attach to already-running processes, so it would be bad to kill them at quit. But for a processes started from it, a need to confirm your actions starts to annoy at a second quit.
Gdb Solutions
Solution 1 - Gdb
Turning confirmation prompts off globally disabled many other useful checks, such as the one to ask you if you really want to delete all breakpoints when you type "delete".
It would be better to disable the prompt only for the quit command. You can do that by adding this hook to your ~/.gdbinit (for current user) or /etc/gdb/gdbinit (for all users):
define hook-quit
set confirm off
end
Solution 2 - Gdb
set confirm off
See gdb doc for details
Solution 3 - Gdb
Another option is to define a new command that quits without asking for confirmation:
define qquit
set confirm off
quit
end
document qquit
Quit without asking for confirmation.
end
Now you can use qquit
or just qq
to exit quickly, without changing the default behaviour of quit
Solution 4 - Gdb
In conclusion this will run the program directly and don't ask for quit confirmation:
gdb -ex="set confirm off" -ex=r --args ...
Solution 5 - Gdb
Type:Ctrl + D
Before
xx@yy: ~>
> (gdb)
After > (gdb) quit
Then
xx@yy: ~>