Re: Simultaneous gdb session badness

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

> Michael Welsh Duggan writes:
>  > Yes, I see that now.  It was not obvious from NEWS, so I didn't
>  > realize I needed to reread the gdb manual.  (I remember reading the
>  > messages covering bits of this on emacs-devel now that you brought
>  > this up, but I obviously didn't read them closely enough.)
>
> The old behaviour has not changed.  Perhaps NEWS should say that the new
> behaviour is the default now.  (The extract that I posted earlier was from
> the Emacs manual and *not* the gdb manual.  Which NEWS did you read?)

I should have said the gdb section of the Emacs manual.

>  > More importantly though, if one cannot run multiple sessions without
>  > using --fullname, M-x gdb should not allow you to attempt to so.  It
>  > would be much better for it to give an understandable error message
>  > letting the user know what is going on.
>
> Sure.  The problem is that Emacs has to start running gdb and receive some
> output before it knows whether its working in text mode or graphical mode.
> Currently the GUD buffer is created before gdb is run.

I would take that.  It would catch the majority of cases, I think.
You'd have to start two sessions at very nearly exactly the same time
for the second to start before the first produced any output, I would
think.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)