[RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 21 23:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:36:48PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jun 21 13:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> > 2.  What is newconsole good for?  I never use it and wonder if it
> >> > shouldn't just be nuked.  My usual refrain applies here:  Is there
> >> > anything similar in regular gdb?
> >> 
> >> I believe this is similar to "set inferior-tty", though I'm not sure
> >> exactly what the Windows version does.
> >
> >It starts the inferior in a new console window, different from the
> >console window GDB is running in.  It's quite similar to what "set
> >inferior-tty" is for.
> 
> So it actually is useful and used then?

Yes, for instance for debugging applications which grab the whole
console (editors etc).


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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