No I/O redirection under GDB

[Eliot Moss]

On 4/4/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> I just found that gdb's "run" command doesn't action redirection (e.g. run
> </dev/pty2 >/dev/pty2 2>&1, where the shell on /dev/pty2 is doing a long sleep).
> Instead, the invoked program gets the redirections as command line arguments.
>
> Looking through the archives, I found
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/1999-04/msg00355.html documenting this
> behaviour. Chris Faylor commented at the time that fixing it was more trouble
> than it appeared.
>
> That was 15 years ago - has anything changed since? Anyone up for this or should
> I have a go? I *could* simply make my target do the redirection itself, but that
> doesn't help anyone else. OTOH if changing gdb really *is* that hard, maybe I
> should just change my program anyway.
>
> Any advice welcomed,

I think this is the intended design (see:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Input_002fOutput.html#Input_002fOutput
).  If you want *gdb's* input and output redirected, I would think you want to invoke
gdb with I/O redirection on the command line, as in:

gdb foo < infile > outfile

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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