Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:34:22PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:25:45 -0400
>    From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
>    On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:01:44PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    >    Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:45:18 +0300
>    >    From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>    > 
>    >    (Shrug) What about redirecting one of the streams to another file
>    >    handle?  I think any modern platform will support this.  We could, for
>    >    example, make this an option (it could be on by default if PTYs aren't
>    >    supported).
>    > 
>    > Terminals are quite different from "normal" pipes.  For example stdio
>    > is line buffered for (pseudo) terminals but normally buffered for
>    > other streams.  So this affects basically any program.
> 
>    Yes, but I think Eli's still basically right here: if you don't have
>    PTYs, then preserving terminal semantics isn't terribly important.
> 
> Oh, yes.  As long as it isn't the default, this certainly makes sense.
> So anyone who cares about windows, feel free to implement this ;-).

To me, it's more or less to hear a public profession of how GDB should
work on windows. This allows me to change the way GDB works involving
TTY's and not feel so bad.

Bob Rossi