From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16486 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2005 20:48:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16467 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2005 20:48:51 -0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:48:51 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-143-138.inter.net.il [80.230.143.138]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BAK12715 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:48:44 +0300 (IDT) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:48:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20050801192545.GA17803@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:25:45 -0400) Subject: Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <17131.64575.780190.163527@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050730230309.GA22547@white> <20050731012111.GB13808@nevyn.them.org> <20050731131653.GC22547@white> <20050731153051.GA28158@nevyn.them.org> <20050731212021.GA24144@white> <20050801113002.GB24853@white> <200508011901.j71J1i1w026583@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050801192545.GA17803@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:25:45 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > > The buffering gets annoying on Windows because some applications use > Windows library calls to detect a console and control buffering > accordingly. Such programs are not suited for debugging by GDB. One could attach GDB from another command prompt window to try to alleviate the pain. And, if GDB is very careful in how it uses another file handle for terminal I/O, the Windows calls that fiddle with terminal settings will not affect GDB, only the debuggee.