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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove excess calls to gdb_flush
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
References: <20190219205426.4168-1-tromey@adacore.com>
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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On 02/19/2019 08:54 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> my belief being that gdb's standard output
>   streams are line buffered (by inheriting the behavior from stdio)

That's only true if gdb is connected to a pty.  If gdb is started with
a pipe or regular file for stdout/stderr instead, then it won't be.  I
guess we could fix that with a setvbuf call at startup though.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves