Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:01:44PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:45:18 +0300
>    From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
>    (Shrug) What about redirecting one of the streams to another file
>    handle?  I think any modern platform will support this.  We could, for
>    example, make this an option (it could be on by default if PTYs aren't
>    supported).
> 
> Terminals are quite different from "normal" pipes.  For example stdio
> is line buffered for (pseudo) terminals but normally buffered for
> other streams.  So this affects basically any program.

Yes, but I think Eli's still basically right here: if you don't have
PTYs, then preserving terminal semantics isn't terribly important.

The buffering gets annoying on Windows because some applications use
Windows library calls to detect a console and control buffering
accordingly.  But we can't handle that, so I wouldn't fret about it too
much.

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