separating gdb & inferior output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:09:12 -0400
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > Perhaps you could state what are the problems with `tty'?
> 
> O, you need to actually get a new tty.

Sorry, I still don't get it: I know what the `tty' command does, but I
don't understand what is its problem on non-Unix platforms.  I don't
see anything dubious in the code that implements the command.

> Windows doesn't have the concept of a tty.

Of course, it does.

> File descriptor redirection is fine.

And that's exactly what win32-nat.c does, please take a look.

> Maybe we could have something like
> 
>    gdb --i=mi --out_fd=n
> where n is the descriptor you plan on reading from GDB.

How is this different from what GDB already does?

> What does it mean to open a 'tty' on a windows platform, or some other
> non-unix platform?

Again, see win32-nat.c (search for "inferior_io_terminal").

I'm afraid I'm missing something.