Re: [PATCH] Unbuffer stdout and stderr on windows

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:21:50 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com
> 
> On 08/16/2013 03:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I suggest not to broaden the issue beyond the original problem, lest
> > we will be unable to solve it.
> 
> Nobody's doing that.  What I'm saying is that the testsuite is not
> special, and we should _zone in_ to the real problem, and fix it
> completely.

A complete solution, if it exists, might require much more effort,
which is IMO unjustified in the absence of complaints.

> What will probably happen with that solution is that Windows GDB
> clients will end up using the special testsuite-only flag too,
> because by default, GDB will remain broken...

I use the Emacs client all the time, and I don't think it's broken.


> Why add a flag for a half-fix instead of fixing the issue
> completely?

I fear that we don't know/understand enough to do TRT for the complete
solution.  The "half-fix", OTOH, solves a well-defined issue that is
understood very well.