From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:07:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] tests: create an interactive gdb session with the 'debug' helper Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170318161400.19753-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> Hi Gábor, On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > 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