From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4631F20323 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756822AbdCULH2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:07:28 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:53263 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756550AbdCULH1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:07:27 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.201.193.73]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MCfcc-1czfZ72Omo-009Ouo; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:07:11 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:07:08 +0100 (CET) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: =?UTF-8?Q?SZEDER_G=C3=A1bor?= cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] tests: create an interactive gdb session with the 'debug' helper In-Reply-To: <20170318161400.19753-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20170318161400.19753-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; BOUNDARY="8323329-2093216316-1490094431=:3767" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:I/ZViSN7obl9sVwj7YuJzIeA+L33s7TW0WibBmDZD1Boluxw/CF KlKM3gJa4SLirc1oF6eGwAg1LGVVFCpVI2MnyKsD9KdxBUKXrxr39OiB8/UsJAFwum3niNj 9RholZueugSbGckZj5Iu/9wqlyoRRVXvq5+goT9kD0x6g8PSb8lRCrr8EIEm+Eqf9jaeWUq JfF20zlmFb39E/qsw1sJg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:CxFV6lfmz2Q=:XLjg+08vUxVT/6FBC16ElZ HX8jU+xhM3+ujHVMlLi5tDGIaOLNRMm1r/oGG0OMP1vvjb8Pn+1XJTZOmL9ERfwbO6yW2vycG bJFa0fMHs/0X5vBia8TEfGeNU9zOFU9aBUGrS+S1oSZlkcC9/+TlypTIqEqzfEEQ++QV2laDL zv5fvpPLV44DCjHWtYV+uykd1RK36tCuX5QwkK//O1ekcQVuTfwEGAUCdzW7ZiUqUV81d2Mry E5M27O7D1Kc3aLSGyxFaRn2zd3x6+yimVA+8YQGZhRObq/IaamCt7zFzQQ+P7mQ6lAi4JwyQz 5OhrvY/wJd2UeVsjLRPbRbbjGc2j7OMRJeg+LHKZbzRSWFbIKoTMUMMckjAgst+I6XhLD30ta iYD9Dssna+xEOW6e8AJgdeV/y+nEjRwCn+wxmULWo5ZqAs3S8wZuzTUCz8clMSjPcRGepN3mT Bf/eWOK7lmrcsPv0pPEwwE7rMNOHuiE49WYsUzQm6DEmXCvfbBgKZ/GRAEAbcsmayjwjSp9Jj 6lkWrQAaM2P/5CEDtmnUfCz7sx1VNXftaPeMvYSojkLL5oEEFYmh2khrKdcGgfYH03Uu0RXzj WDlQY72OL0amWQkqvPjIi4nWJvKwbEwZ1DdMYPFBTcd1xBMNy1WTZuGKCLcTXaerOmChX4MgW cnSqJbMEFQQqFiA/h1ee4tOroUUrgoM3UC8iJaxMTenTuHLF+KkkGkbp4RxlS9lX1KjnIDExI dvyWnlxTxxk7vouSP0OGGisOV4alTDJbVkPVxzeZv4AGx3UPWNx1Ka390L6VLH8GzpsPbw66X 3LNgucGEmctNqNUiulT1Dezrj7zOA== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-2093216316-1490094431=:3767 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hi G=C3=A1bor, On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, SZEDER G=C3=A1bor 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)). >=20 > 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 --8323329-2093216316-1490094431=:3767--