From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10142 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2005 15:23:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10113 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2005 15:23:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 Apr 2005 15:23:41 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DQ5Qj-00043M-Gy; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:23:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:23:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Mitchell Cc: Christopher Faylor , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Support Windows in event-loop.c Message-ID: <20050425152324.GA15521@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Mitchell , Christopher Faylor , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20050421205617.GA13146@nevyn.them.org> <01c54713$Blat.v2.4$5d0b4ea0@zahav.net.il> <20050424221806.GA13942@nevyn.them.org> <426C3270.4050608@codesourcery.com> <20050425042414.GA7322@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050425131611.GA7821@nevyn.them.org> <20050425145023.GD6543@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <426D05D6.8010903@codesourcery.com> <20050425150422.GA13753@nevyn.them.org> <426D0A11.4060604@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426D0A11.4060604@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00310.txt.bz2 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:17:37AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > >>Does that seem like a workable plan to you? > > > >I don't think we should add something this limited. > > OK. I'll go code up something select-like for Windows. > > It will not be fully general because each new kind of event we want to > wait for will in general require a new API call, and I can't enumerate > what the eventual complete set might be. (In UNIX, everything is a file > descriptor from this point of view; not true in Windows.) However, it > will at least have the right interface. Can't you borrow Cygwin's, or the one from Emacs that Eli referenced? No need to reinvent the wheel. > I'm not personally aware of how to get anything other than a console > handle into this loop. Can you give me a test procedure that should get > me something else, given the currently limited functionality on > (non-Cygwin) Windows? Otherwise, I'd still prefer to add the generality > to select once I can test what I'm dealing with. Try running gdb -i=mi piped to and from cat? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC