Re: [1.3.3] breaks serial i/o?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

Any updates on this?

cgf

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:30:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:39:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>However, before we reach this drastic step, I'd *really* suggest at
>>>least trying the 5.1 branch of gdb.  Your errors sound very similar
>>>to others that were reported with ARM.  It is very possible that
>>>they were fixed subsequent to 5.0.
>>
>>I have just spelunked through the cvs logs in the rdi-share directory
>>and it looks like most relevant changes to gdb for arm/rdi did make
>>it into gdb 5.0 so this probably is not going to hold out much promise.
>>
>>>From looking at gdb's code it seems like select is returning a TRUE
>>for something to select on the serial line but when it is time to
>>read something, apparently nothing is available.
>>
>>I guess I really will have to make a cable and connect my linux and
>>windows systems to test this...
>
>One suggestion for the gdb code -- add an '| O_BINARY' to all of the
>opens of the serial line in unixcomm.c.  I can see a pathological
>condition in cygwin where a VMIN setting will not be properly honored if
>there is a readahead condition due to a '\n' -> '\r\n' conversion.
>
>This could cause the code to block but even if it wasn't blocking, I
>assume that you probably don't want to do newline conversions.
>
>This probably isn't going to fix the problem since the default is for
>cygwin to not do this kind of conversion on devices but it's best to be
>safe anyway.
>
>cgf
>
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