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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't send queries to the MI interpreter
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89904751-7015-b272-98c1-33e786f7c356@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170210163650.10334-1-simon.marchi@ericsson.com>

On 02/10/2017 04:36 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> We have a little problem in Eclipse CDT related to queries being sent on
> the MI channel.  GDB sends queries on the MI stream and waits for an
> answer (y or n), but since CDT will never answer, it causes a deadlock.
> 
> Note that this is only a problem when using MI as a side-channel
> (new-ui) on a dedicated tty.  It doesn't happen if GDB's input/output
> streams are pipes, for example.  In that case, the queries are
> auto-answered as they should.

I think we could have a testsuite test for this, as the 'new-ui'-related
testcases create a pty for the secondary MI channel ("separate-mi-tty")?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-10 16:37 Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 16:48 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-02-10 16:52   ` Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 17:12     ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 17:44       ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 18:07         ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 18:36           ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 19:08             ` Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 19:23               ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 19:06           ` Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 19:20             ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 19:26               ` Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 19:32                 ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 19:30             ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-10 19:03         ` Simon Marchi
2017-02-10 19:08           ` Pedro Alves

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