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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Detect GDB is in cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 00:41:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Detect GDB is in cygwin
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On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 04:45:07PM +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
>On 08/03/2013 12:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> This patch relies on low-level, unadvertised properties of the Cygwin DLL.
>> Are you sure it doesn't detect a cygwin pipe as a pty?
>
>Hi,
>I am not sure, but we never detect a cygwin pipe here. In
>using_cygwin_pty, we only check the file name of handle of stdin, to
>see its name match the template or not. We don't have to worry about
>it.
Why can't the handle be a pipe? They also begin with "cygwin-".