Re: [RFA] windows-nat.c: Enable processed input at startup

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at sourceware dot org>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:41:16PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
>  This is the patch I was talking about in
>a reply to this thread:
>http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2010-04/msg00113.html
>
>  It ensures that at startup, if GDB can connect to the console
>the console mode is modified to enable processed input.
>  This make '^C' (ascii #3) to be interpreted as a 
>control event.
>
>
>
>
>Pierre Muller
>Pascal language support maintainer for GDB
>
>
>2010-04-26  Pierre Muller  <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
>
>	* windows-nat.c (_initialize_windows_nat): Try to set
>	ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT for console mode if accessible.
>
>Index: windows-nat.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/windows-nat.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.208
>diff -u -p -r1.208 windows-nat.c
>--- windows-nat.c	16 Apr 2010 07:49:35 -0000	1.208
>+++ windows-nat.c	26 Apr 2010 11:33:08 -0000
>@@ -2356,6 +2356,22 @@ void
> _initialize_windows_nat (void)
> {
>   struct cmd_list_element *c;
>+  HANDLE std_in_handle;
>+
>+  /* Try to enable processed input for the console.
>+     This should allow to use '^C' to interrupt the debuggee
>+     at least as log as the debugge does not modify the
>+     console mode settings.  */
>+  std_in_handle = CreateFile ("CONIN$", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
>+			      FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);
>+
>+  if (std_in_handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
>+    {
>+      DWORD console_mode;
>+      CHECK (GetConsoleMode (std_in_handle, &console_mode));
>+      console_mode = console_mode | ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT;
>+      CHECK (SetConsoleMode (std_in_handle, console_mode));
>+    }
> 
>   init_windows_ops ();

That has to be conditional on __CYGWIN__ since you'll be screwing up Cygwin's
notion of the console state.

And, the name std_in_handle is a misnomer.  It should be console_handle
or something like that.

Can't you just set what you need and close the handle?  I thought this
setting was global.

cgf