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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: emacs gud-interface is not updated after gdb command execution (maybe because of incomplete output from gdb)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 18:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506dac42-346b-0007-d1b5-5ea0930f8838@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1002567840.45243.3a1a3cbe-ee7e-465d-8585-9c4a96076936.open-xchange@email.1und1.de>

On 5/26/2016 10:55 AM, Tobias Zawada wrote:
> Thanks, Ken for the following info:
>
>> This looks like a bug I reported several years ago; it actually has
>> nothing to do with emacs:
>>
>>  https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/msg00445.html
>>
>> It was fixed but then reappeared some months later:
>>
>>  https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00049.html
>>
>> It was fixed again but apparently is back. The test case from the
>> original report still exhibits the problem.
>
> I had a look at the elisp-function gdb-send.
>
> The command process-send-string is used there for sending commands to gdb.
>
> Is it right that the problem manifests itself already there?
>
> The doc of process-send-string says that this command may send the string
> contents as separate bunches of data.
>
> If the output is already incomplete because of the partitioned input through
> process-send-string I see no way for a cygwin-specific workaround and we must
> wait for a fix of gdb.

I already wrote a test case (which was improved by cgf) in my original 
bug report.  As you can see from reading that old thread, the problem 
*is* Cygwin specific and is provoked without partitioned input.

> Do you know where I should report the bug?

This email thread is the right place to report the bug.

Ken

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-26 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-26 12:32 Tobias Zawada
2016-05-26 15:48 ` William M. (Mike) Miller
2016-05-26 17:48 ` Ken Brown
2016-05-26 18:00   ` Tobias Zawada
2016-05-26 18:01     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2016-05-31  1:47   ` gdb pty problem [Was: emacs gud-interface is not updated after gdb command execution (maybe because of incomplete output from gdb)] Ken Brown
2016-05-31  9:35     ` Ken Brown
2016-05-31 22:41       ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-01 12:51         ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 13:02           ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 14:28             ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-01 14:29               ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-01 14:33               ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 15:22                 ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 18:29                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-01 19:05                     ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 19:54                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-01 20:01                         ` Ken Brown
2016-06-01 21:05                           ` [GOLDSTAR] " Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-02  2:09                             ` Andrew Schulman
2016-06-01 14:18           ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-06 10:12             ` Takashi Yano
2016-06-06 13:16               ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-07 13:14                 ` Takashi Yano
2016-06-07 16:11                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-06 14:01               ` Ken Brown

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