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+/* Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This file is part of GDB.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef COMMON_SIGNALS_STATE_SAVE_RESTORE_H
+#define COMMON_SIGNALS_STATE_SAVE_RESTORE_H
+
+/* Save/restore the signal actions of all signals, and the signal
+ mask.
+
+ Since the exec family of functions does not reset the signal
+ disposition of signals set to SIG_IGN, nor does it reset the signal
+ mask, in order to be transparent, when spawning new child processes
+ to debug (with "run", etc.), we must reset signal actions and mask
+ back to what was originally inherited from gdb/gdbserver's parent,
+ just before execing the target program to debug. */
+
+/* Save the signal state of all signals. If !QUIET, warn if we detect
+ a custom signal handler preinstalled. */
+
+extern void save_original_signals_state (bool quiet);
+
+/* Restore the signal state of all signals. */
+
+extern void restore_original_signals_state (void);
+
+#endif /* COMMON_SIGNALS_STATE_SAVE_RESTORE_H */