Way to break when using a piped input

[GanbaruTobi]

Hello,

my program takes input via a pipe, for example:

cat input | heaptrace ./program

This works without --break. When i try to --break, gdb instantly takes the input as commands (probably the remaining of input), and does quit out from the debugger.
Is there a way to keep the debugger alive, or to not parse the piped input as gdb commands?
Normaly there would be the run < input command in gdb, but this is not realy the value which would be provided by heaptrace breakpoints.

Thanks for your help

[Arinerron]

Sorry, I didn't get an email about this issue for some reason.

That's an interesting problem. I'm trying to think of a clean solution. Lmk if you have any ideas!