Quit

quit [unconditionally]

Gently terminate the debugged program.

The program being debugged is aborted via a DebuggerQuit exception.

When the debugger from the outside (e.g. via a trepan command), the debugged program is contained inside a try block which handles the DebuggerQuit exception. However if you called the debugger was started in the middle of a program, there might not be such an exception handler; the debugged program still terminates but generally with a traceback showing that exception.

If the debugged program is threaded, we raise an exception in each of the threads ending with our own. However this might not quit the program.

See also

kill or kill for more forceful termination commands. run and restart are other ways to restart the debugged program.