[PATCH] An implementation of pipe to make I/O communication between gdb and shell.

[Abhijit Halder]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Abhijit Halder
<abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the implementation of a new gdb command, named 'pipe', to make
> ease of I/O communication between gdb and shell.
> The syntax of this command is shown as follows:
> (gdb) pipe [option] <dlim> gdb-cmd <dlim> shell-cmd
> List of options go with pipe command:
>  -r   gdb reads output of shell-command from pipe
>  -w  gdb passes output of a command to shell to process.
>  -    end of gdb option list
> dlim (delimiter) is a single ASCII character from the set below:
> {|/\'"`#@!$%^} (We actually can remove this restriction).
> The default behaviour of pipe will be to pass the gdb command output to shell.
>
>
>  Makefile.in |    4 -
>  pipe.c      |  194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  pipe.h      |   34 ++++++++++
>  ui-file.c   |   14 ++++
>  ui-file.h   |    3
>  5 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Abhijit Halder
>

A last minute regression happened because of wrong use skip_spaces.
Re-submitting the corrected patch.

 Makefile.in |    4 -
 pipe.c      |  194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 pipe.h      |   34 ++++++++++
 ui-file.c   |   14 ++++
 ui-file.h   |    3
 5 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Thanks,
Abhijit Halder
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