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RE: show inferior-tty
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Nick Roberts'" <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>,"'Bob Rossi'" <bob at brasko dot net>
- Cc: <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:06:06 +0100
- Subject: RE: show inferior-tty
----Original Message----
>From: Nick Roberts
>Sent: 12 July 2005 14:36
> > > What has worked like this for years? "show inferior-tty" is new
> isn't it? >
> > Sorry for the lack of information. The "inferior-tty" is simply a
> better > "tty" command. The tty command has had this documentation,
> > (gdb) help tty
> > Set terminal for future runs of program being debugged.
> >
> > > The phrase "of program being debugged" seems redundant to me (what
> other > > possibilities are there?). It might be even more clear to say:
> > >
> > > Default terminal for future runs is "/dev/pts/1".
> > >
> > > since the redirection overrides this.
> >
> > I like your suggestion. There is still 1 ambiguity though. Is the
> "Default > terminal for future runs" for GDB's I/O? or for the
> inferior's I/O? I think > this question is why the phrase "program being
> debugged" is used.
>
> I guess thats the reason for "of program being debugged" and explains why
> it was a dumb suggestion.
It's not an entirely dumb suggestion. It's a clumsy piece of wording and
could do with being improved.
And since "program being debugged" == "inferior", I'd think the best
choice of wording would be ...
> (gdb) help tty
> Set terminal for future runs of inferior.
cheers,
DaveK
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