Re: [PATCH] Don't send queries to the MI interpreter

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2017-02-10 11:48, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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")?

Right, I didn't think of making a test, I'll work on it.  I'll try to 
find a query that's easier to trigger than the 
modify-memory-while-replaying one though.