Re: [RFC] Improve testsuite for poor expect behavior

Joel Brobecker
2009-06-18T14:59:30Z

> Yes, I know that. However, Emacs on Windows jumps through the hoops
> to emulate Posix pipe semantics with Windows pipes, and then the way
> Emacs reads input from subprocesses has its own quirks (due to the
> need to auto-detect multibyte non-ASCII characters in pipe reads,
> where there are no guarantees that a multibyte character will not be
> broken in its middle). So before we unconditionally do what you'd
> like, I would suggest that someone checks that GUD in Emacs 23 is not
> broken by these changes, however innocent they might be when GDB runs
> on a true console.

This is very reasonable - but there are only 2 people I know who might
be able to do that: You and Pierre.

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Joel