Re: [PATCH 1/3] Detect GDB is in cygwin

Christopher Faylor
2013-08-05T04:41:33Z

On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 04:45:07PM +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
>On 08/03/2013 12:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> This patch relies on low-level, unadvertised properties of the Cygwin DLL.
>> Are you sure it doesn't detect a cygwin pipe as a pty?
>
>Hi,
>I am not sure, but we never detect a cygwin pipe here. In
>using_cygwin_pty, we only check the file name of handle of stdin, to
>see its name match the template or not. We don't have to worry about
>it.

Why can't the handle be a pipe? They also begin with "cygwin-".