Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
 > > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:02:41 -0500 (EST)
 > > 
 > > Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > Eli has a point.
 > >  > > I would like to close this issue and leave things as they are
 > >  > > for the 5.1 release. 
 > >  > 
 > >  > FYI: I have a known bug with using the async code in the DJGPP port.
 > >  > If you type quickly, sometimes characters get stuck in some buffer,
 > >  > and GDB becomes out of sync with user keystrokes; i.e. you type a key,
 > >  > but GDB sees the previous key.
 > > 
 > > Ah, thanks. I suspect there are a few (several?) bugs that still needs
 > > to be ironed out.
 > > 
 > >  > I don't yet know whether this is due to some bug in the DJGPP's
 > >  > version of `select' or something in GDB's own code.  It's the next
 > >  > issue I will be working on RSN, and I hope to get it solved for v5.1.
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Let me know if i can do something.
 > > Have you seen this anywhere else other than DJGPP?
 > 
 > I debugged this.  It's a bug in DJGPP's library (`select' wasn't
 > paying attention to characters buffered by the termios emulation).
 > After fixing it, the -async option is working correctly in the DJGPP
 > port.
 > 

Ah, Great!

Thanks

Elena