non-blocking reads/writes and event loops

[Jim Blandy]

> I'd rather see the GUI problems solved by two processes:
>   (1) the GDB core, which talks to inferior processes;
>   (2) the user interface, which talks to (1) over a pipe using a
>       well-defined protocol.
> 
> [Credit to Chris Faylor and Jim Blandy for suggesting this
>   approach.]

I don't think that's what I meant to suggest.  I meant to suggest
something much less radical, and probably didn't explain it well.