[Bug python/31946] New: sys.exit from Python no longer exits the GDB process

[Bug python/31946] New: sys.exit from Python no longer exits the GDB process

[gsingh2011 at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31946

            Bug ID: 31946
           Summary: sys.exit from Python no longer exits the GDB process
           Product: gdb
           Version: 15.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: python
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: gsingh2011 at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

I'm using GNU gdb (Ubuntu 15.0.50.20240403-0ubuntu1) 15.0.50.20240403-git on
Ubuntu 24.04, and I'm observing different behavior with `sys.exit` in Python
then when I was using GNU gdb (Ubuntu 12.1-0ubuntu1~22.04.2) 12.1 on Ubuntu
22.04. I'm not exactly sure which version of GDB first had this bug, these are
the only versions I tested.

In GDB 12.1, `sys.exit(1)` in Python would exit the GDB process with an exit
code of 1. In GDB 15.0, I'm seeing that there's an exception message instead,
and GDB does not exit:
```
Python Exception <class 'SystemExit'>: 1
Error occurred in Python: 1
```

This was discussed on the mailing list here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2024-June/051417.html

It sounds like this change was not intentional. Some projects are relying on
the old behavior, and this change breaks them.

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[Bug python/31946] sys.exit from Python no longer exits the GDB process

[gsingh2011 at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31946

Gulshan Singh <gsingh2011 at gmail dot com> changed:

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