Re: MI testsuite improvements

[Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>]

> > >    - The second idea was to have GDB internally create a pty. That would
> > >      result in a master and slave side. Neither of these are important,
> > >      AFAIK, only the slavename (file name of the terminal created, 
> > >      ie. /dev/pts/1) is important. For example, here is what could
> > >      happen
> > >       1. The user asks GDB to open a new pty and the name is given back
> > >       -mi-create-pty
> > >       /dev/pts/1
> > >       2. The user asks GDB to use that pty for the inferior
> > >       -mi-set-tty /dev/pts/1
> > >       3. The user opens /dev/pts/1 in there own program to read the
> > >       output of the inferior.
> > >       4. The user asks GDB to close the device
> > >       -mi-destroy-pty /dev/pts/1
> > > 
> > > Either way, it will probably be a while before I have time to work on
> > > the second task, since I'm already swamped trying to validate the MI
> > > testsuite with a syntax checker and changing the grammar to match
> > > what GDB actually outputs.
> 
> This is not clear to me ... one more scenario so you can see
> from my point of view 8-)
> 
> As you pointed out, when creating the pseudo pty
> we have a master and slave side and both should be important :
> 	(gdb) -mi-create-pty
> 	^done,pty={master="/dev/ptyp0",slave="/dev/ptyTf"}
> 	(gdb)
> 
> The master is given to gdb to set std{in,out,err} of the inferior after forking
> 	(gdb) -mi-set-tty /dev/ptyp0
> 	^done
> 	(gdb) -exec-run
> 	^running

I didn't even know you could get a device name for the master side. If
you have the master fd, you can get the slave name via ptsname, how do
you get the master device name?

> And the slave is use internally by the front end to read/write when
> communicating with the inferior.

I have been giving GDB the slave name for the inferior program. Then I
also internally read/write using the slave name. Is this wrong? Why are
we using different methods?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi