Subject: Re: bug#9839: compile with gdb running

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:30:05 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I don't understand what "allows the I/O buffer to work when the inferior
> is restarted" means.

No, me neither. :) The ChangeLog says it slightly differently:

   * process.c (wait_reading_process_output): Keep the descriptor
   when pty is used by a non-child process, e.g., in I/O buffer of
   GDB this allows inferior to be restarted.