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Re: MinGW gdb run in non-DOS terminal
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:22:16AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > It is roughly unsolvable. A cygwin "terminal" is in fact a Windows
> > pipe; isatty() returns false, therefore the C library selects
> > line-buffered mode, which is a pretty standard thing for C runtimes
> > to do.
>
> :-(. In fact, I see the same in GPS where cygwin is nowhere in sight.
What's it connected to then? A pipe or a console?
> > I suppose that if the CLI is in use, you could automatically turn off
> > buffering. But there may be plenty of other problems...
>
> Maybe we should start with that. Would you mind pointing me in the
> area where this should be done? I can experiment with that and see
> if we have any other obvious problems.
Just use setvbuf, I presume the Microsoft runtime has that.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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