From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12232 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2008 09:00:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 12224 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2008 09:00:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:00:19 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6F6B16D4350; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:00:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:10:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Pierre Muller Subject: Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption Message-ID: <20080622090016.GW20180@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller References: <000001c8d330$0c6b51f0$2541f5d0$@u-strasbg.fr> <20080621170521.GB2470@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080621172115.GA2033@caradoc.them.org> <20080621183648.GV20180@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080622031804.GB4200@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080622031804.GB4200@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 On Jun 21 23:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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? Yes, for instance for debugging applications which grab the whole console (editors etc). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat