Re: [STUMP] tty redirection from GDB to xterm not working

[Julian Stecklina]

Carlos Konstanski <address@hidden> writes:

> I am running an ncurses C++ program under GDB from within Emacs for a
> programming assignment at school. I use the following trick to get the
> console output redirected to an xterm so that the ncurses stuff works:
>
> http://cdw.sourceforge.net/documentation/emacs_gdb_ncurses/emacs_gdb_ncurses.en.html#cleaning_upa
>
> The problem is that I have to log into an xfce4 desktop environment to get
> this to work. If I try it from stumpwm, I get the following message in the
> xterm when GDB tries to send output to it:
>
> warning: GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal: Operation not permitted
>
> All things are equal except that in one case I am running xfce4, and in the
> other case I am running stumpwm. I am running stumpwm from the saved image
> that is built by the makefile, and I am using SBCL.
>
> Any ideas how I can get past this problem?

I can reproduce this, but I am unsure whether this is a bug. And I can't
really imagine how this is stump's fault. In my 2min survey (google
"GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal") I found lots of people having
the same problem in different scenarios.

Could you file a bug?

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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