Cygwin GDB won't start or hangs at startup

[Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2]

On Friday, February 5, 2021 3:08 PM Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
>On Friday, February 5, 2021 10:08 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>On 05.02.2021 08:55, Daniel RÃhrborn via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On 04.02.2021 13:13, Daniel RÃhrborn via Cygwin wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi Marco,
>>> it seems stacked and when blindly typing "quit" it responds with exiting. So it seems like the output is invisible.
>>> Tested it with Win7_32bit, GDB version 9.2-1 with Cygwin/bin in PATH (since the beginning).
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Daniel
>>
>>I can not fully replicate on my W10,
>>
>>but I notice that running from CMD there is a small difference
>>between the working instance
>
>Remember I reported something similar on Jan 15, 2021. I just tried again 
>and can fully confirm these messed up file descriptors. My gdb just sits
>there without any output but does quit when I type quit. The file descriptors
>look exactly what Marco posts here for working and non-working version.

P.S. The strange file descriptors start to appear with gdb 7.12.1-2.

>
>>
>>Marco@LAPTOP-82F08ILC /proc/3072/fd
>>i686 $ ls -l
>>total 0
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 0 -> /dev/cons1
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 1 -> /dev/cons1
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 10 -> pipe:[21474850180]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 2 -> /dev/cons1
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 3 -> pipe:[8589948292]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 4 -> pipe:[8589948292]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 5 -> pipe:[12884915588]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 6 -> pipe:[12884915588]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 7 -> pipe:[17179882884]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 8 -> pipe:[17179882884]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:59 9 -> pipe:[21474850180]
>>
>>and a not working one
>>
>>Marco@LAPTOP-82F08ILC /proc/3055/fd
>>i686 $ ls -l
>>total 0
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 0 -> /dev/cons0
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 1 -> pipe:[4294988268]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 10 -> pipe:[17179890156]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 11 -> pipe:[21474857452]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 12 -> pipe:[21474857452]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 2 -> pipe:[4294988268]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 3 -> pipe:[8589955564]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 4 -> pipe:[8589955564]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 5 -> /dev/cons0
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 6 -> /dev/cons0
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 7 -> pipe:[12884922860]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 8 -> pipe:[12884922860]
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Marco Kein 0 Feb  5 09:57 9 -> pipe:[17179890156]
>>
>>it is like the file descriptor of outputs are misaligned,
>>and I see two more of them
>
>Exactly what I see in mintty.
>
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