From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-patches-return-56756-listarch-gdb-patches=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 5709 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2008 03:18:23 -0000
Received: (qmail 5697 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2008 03:18:23 -0000
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from pool-71-248-179-123.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (71.248.179.123)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:18:06 +0000
Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) 	id 5654D617221; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:04:00 -0000
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Subject: Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption
Message-ID: <20080622031804.GB4200@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, 	Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
References: <000001c8d330$0c6b51f0$2541f5d0$@u-strasbg.fr> <20080621170521.GB2470@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080621172115.GA2033@caradoc.them.org> <20080621183648.GV20180@calimero.vinschen.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20080621183648.GV20180@calimero.vinschen.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb-patches.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-patches-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:36:48PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 21 13:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > 2.  What is newconsole good for?  I never use it and wonder if it
>> > shouldn't just be nuked.  My usual refrain applies here:  Is there
>> > anything similar in regular gdb?
>> 
>> I believe this is similar to "set inferior-tty", though I'm not sure
>> exactly what the Windows version does.
>
>It starts the inferior in a new console window, different from the
>console window GDB is running in.  It's quite similar to what "set
>inferior-tty" is for.

So it actually is useful and used then?

cgf