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Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] tests: create an interactive gdb session with the 'debug' helper

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 21, 2017, 11:07 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.20.1703211206050.3767@virtualbox>
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<20170318161400.19753-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Hi Gábor,
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
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> The 'debug' test helper is supposed to facilitate debugging by running
> a command of the test suite under gdb.  Unfortunately, its usefulness
> is severely limited, because that gdb session is not interactive,
> since the test's, and thus gdb's standard input is redirected from
> /dev/null (for a good reason, see 781f76b15 (test-lib: redirect stdin
> of tests, 2011-12-15)).
> 
> Redirect gdb's standard file descriptors from/to the test
> environment's stdin, stdout and stderr in the 'debug' helper, thus
> creating an interactive gdb session (even in non-verbose mode), which
> is much, much more useful.
Thank you for working on this!

I meant to clean up my local patch that tried to avoid redirection altogether in the case of `debug`, but I never could make it elegant enough for my taste. Your approach is much better!

ACK, Dscho

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  1. tests: create an interactive gdb session with the 'debug' helperSZEDER Gábor, Mar 17, 2017
  2. Jeff KingMar 17, 2017
  3. SZEDER GáborMar 18, 2017
  4. 1/2 tests: create an interactive gdb session with the 'debug' helperSZEDER Gábor, Mar 18, 2017
  5. 2/2 tests: make the 'test_pause' helper work in non-verbose modeSZEDER Gábor, Mar 18, 2017
  6. Jeff KingMar 20, 2017
  7. Jeff KingMar 20, 2017
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 21, 2017
  9. Jeff KingMar 20, 2017

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