Potential fix: gdb/strace swallows stderr

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 18 19:19:00 GMT 2011


On Aug 18 21:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 18 12:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 06:02:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Chris, wasn't some set_child_tty function part of GDB at one point?
> > >Or was that Red Hat only and never has been pushed upstream?
> > 
> > I added code to gdb which I think we decided was no longer needed.
> > 
> > However, see previous comments about...  something.  I forget what
> > they were.
> 
> Hmm.  Doesn't that mean we can get rid of dtable::get_debugger_info()?
> I mean, why do we need to make sure that an obscure fetaure in some old
> versions of GDB which were never released to the public are still
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                        was
> supported?

Corinna



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