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gdb-mi should accept some process I/O before GDB actually starts

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From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> cfl.rr.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.3; Gud hangs terminal when not running gdb --annotate=3
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:04:24 -0500

Ever since upgrading to emacs23 I have been unable to run gdb with sudo 
under emacs gud mode ( it never gets my password ).  I have recently 
studied the issue in depth and found that the problem is more broad than 
sudo.  When starting gud mode with M-x gdb, it prompts you for what to 
run, and if you don't run gdb --annotate=3, then gud mode hangs and 
nothing you type is sent to the inferior process.  It seems --annotate=3 
generates some magic output that gud mode is waiting on and until it 
sees it, will not forward anything you type to the inferior process.

Message #8 received at 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> cfl.rr.com>
Cc: 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10285: 23.3;
	Gud hangs terminal when not running gdb --annotate=3
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:39 -0500

> Ever since upgrading to emacs23 I have been unable to run gdb with sudo
> under emacs gud mode ( it never gets my password ).  I have recently studied
> the issue in depth and found that the problem is more broad than sudo.
> When starting gud mode with M-x gdb, it prompts you for what to run, and if
> you don't run gdb --annotate=3, then gud mode hangs and nothing you type is
> sent to the inferior process.  It seems --annotate=3 generates some magic
> output that gud mode is waiting on and until it sees it, will not forward
> anything you type to the inferior process.

Indeed.  This has more or less always been the case to some extent, but
the gdb-ui code in Emacs-23 made it worse.  Emacs-24 replaced that code
with gdb-mi (which uses --ui=mi instead of --annotate=3) which suffers
from the same problem, but we've added a check that signals an error to
the user pointing out the source of the problem, instead of just
hanging silently.

Could you check the Emacs-24 pretest to see if it addresses the problem?
Presumably now that you know you need to add the magic argument, you are
able to fix the command to make your gdb+sudo case work, right?

        Stefan

Message #11 received at 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> cfl.rr.com>
Cc: 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10285: 23.3;
	Gud hangs terminal when not running gdb --annotate=3
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:21:29 -0500

retitle 10285 gdb-mi should accept some process I/O before GDB actually starts
found 10285 24.1
thanks

>> Could you check the Emacs-24 pretest to see if it addresses the problem?
> Where can I find that?  I don't see it on the main web site.

Since it's a pretest it's not advertised there.
You can find it at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/

>> Presumably now that you know you need to add the magic argument, you are
>> able to fix the command to make your gdb+sudo case work, right?
> No, because sudo runs before gdb and prompts for your password, which
> it never gets, so gdb never runs and spits out whatever Emacs is
> waiting to see.

Ah, and indeed the code in the pretest won't help.
We need further changes to gdb-mi.el to accommodate your use case, but
those changes would be too intrusive to add at this stage, so it'll have
to wait for after 24.1.

In the mean time, I suggest you use M-x gud-gdb RET which uses the old
(Emacs-22) simpler GUD interaction and just requires a "--fullname"
argument (and whose absence won't be as problematic, tho it'll prevent
Emacs from jumping to the source code for you).


        Stefan

Message #18 received at 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Susi <psusi <at> cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10285: gdb-mi should accept some process I/O before GDB
 actually starts
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:04:17 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Presumably now that you know you need to add the magic argument, you are
>>> able to fix the command to make your gdb+sudo case work, right?
>> No, because sudo runs before gdb and prompts for your password, which
>> it never gets, so gdb never runs and spits out whatever Emacs is
>> waiting to see.
>
> Ah, and indeed the code in the pretest won't help.
> We need further changes to gdb-mi.el to accommodate your use case, but
> those changes would be too intrusive to add at this stage, so it'll have
> to wait for after 24.1.

I tried reproducing this in Emacs 28, but the instructions were
unclear.  What command is issued after saying `M-x gdb'?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #25 received at 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 10285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Susi <psusi <at> cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10285: gdb-mi should accept some process I/O before GDB
 actually starts
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 21:38:38 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I tried reproducing this in Emacs 28, but the instructions were
> unclear.  What command is issued after saying `M-x gdb'?

There wasn't any response in half a year here, so it seems unlikely that
there'll be any further development in this bug report, and I'm
therefore closing it.  If somebody has a recipe, please respond to the
debbugs address and we'll reopen.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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