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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: show inferior-tty
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17107.9757.580362.912687@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050711033228.GB27734@white>

 > > Secondly, if I don't set the tty, I get:
 > > 
 > > (gdb) show inferior-tty
 > > Terminal for future runs of program being debugged is "".
 > > 
 > > I think that it should still display a value.  Also perhaps it could just
 > > say e.g
 > > 
 > > Terminal for future runs is "/dev/pts/1".
 > 
 > Well, I think this is just preference. GDB has worked like this for
 > years. I don't mind it the way it is, but if others want it changed,
 > that's fine too.

What has worked like this for years?  "show inferior-tty" is new isn't it?
The phrase "of program being debugged" seems redundant to me (what other
possibilities are there?).  It might be even more clear to say:

Default terminal for future runs is "/dev/pts/1".

since the redirection overrides this.

Nick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11  2:13 Nick Roberts
2005-07-11  3:32 ` Bob Rossi
2005-07-11 13:10   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-11 21:28     ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-12  2:07   ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-07-12 11:41     ` Bob Rossi
2005-07-12 13:34       ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-12 14:07         ` Dave Korn

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