Is there a way to stop the inferior without using Ctrl+C (or an equivalent signal sent from another process?) I'm using a windows platform and am managing GDB from another process, so with no notion of signals, it seems that there isn't a good way to break execution of my program when it's free running without any breakpoints.
EDIT FOR CLARITY:
There are 2 processes involved here. There's process A, which is the parent of GDB. GDB is managing a process, but it's on a remote host, and we'll call that process C.
When I tell GDB to "run" it kicks off process C on the remote host and blocks either until a breakpoint is hit, process C encounters an error or a fatal signal, or GDB itself receives an interrupt signal. If working interactively, you would simply press CTRL+C at the GDB command console, which GDB interprets as a SIGINT (somehow), triggering GDB to halt process C. Since I'm actually managing GDB with process A (and not dealing with it interactively at the shell) I can't very well press Ctrl+C, and since windows has no native notion of "Signals" like you have in UNIX, I can't figure out how to interrupt GDB when it's blocking waiting for process C to interrupt or hit a breakpoint.