From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 70014@debbugs.gnu.org, careless@live.it
Subject: bug#70014: 29.2; debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:36:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5mhfss9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1rpxqS-0000IJ-UH@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:03:36 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: careless@live.it, 70014@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:03:36 -0400
>
> > This feature doesn't work on MS-Windows because the underlying GDB
> > feature (set inferior-tty) doesn't. If someone knows how to fix that,
> > patches are very welcome, but they are are probably need to be
> > submitted to GDB, not to Emacs.
>
> Emacs should at least five a clear error message.
> That it can do without changes in GDB. For users to know
> that this usage is unsupported in GDB would be a big help.
gdb-inferior-io--init-proc silently punts when it cannot get a useful
name from process-tty-name. It always did that. This initialization
is done during initialization of the session, where displaying error
messages is tricky at best, and I also don't know what message to
display, TBH. But patches are welcome.
> I would guess that there are fundamental reasons it is not supported
Yes: Emacs on Windows uses pipes to communicate with subprocesses,
because PTYs don't exist or cannot be used by Emacs. So there's no
name of a TTY to use in the "set inferior-tty" command.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-29 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-26 15:15 bug#70014: 29.2; debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer Davide Lombardo
2024-03-26 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-28 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2024-03-29 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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