Re: Using a socket connection as I/O

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> As the MI interface was designed to operate as
> a machine interface, is there any way to make
> GDB use a socket connection as the I/O stream for the commands
> instead of stdin and stdout?
>
> If this facility does not currently exits , where in the code is the basic command I/O done so I
> could modify it to do this?
top.c is a guess.

However, I'm personally just wondering why someone would want to do 
this?  Can you, perhaphs, expand a little on the motivation behind the 
request.

(GDB's MI doco lack's an intro explaining its intended use.)

Andrew