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Subject: Re: [ast-users] How to redirect terminal stdin/stout to implement a  
gdb-like "set inferior tty" in kshdb?
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> Recently I needed to debug a GNU autoconf configure script which seems
> to do funky things with stdin and stdout. I realized that the shell
> debuggers really should have the equivalent of gdb's "set inferior
> tty" (
> http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/cgi-bin/info2www?(gdb)Input/Output)
I tried this url and I got the message
        Sorry! - Couldn't find target: "Input/Output)" in file "gdb".
> 
> The below is a little test that I came up with.
> 
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ksh
> 
> exec 7<&0 </dev/null 6>&1  # Line taken from an autoconf "configure" script.
> #...
> typeset -i _Dbg_fdi
> exec {_Dbg_fdi} <>/dev/pts/1
> while read "foo >" args <&${_Dbg_fdi}
>  print -- "$line" >&${_Dbg_fdi}
> done
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't work. I get the message:
> 
>  exec: {_Dbg_fdi}: not found
That is because you put a space between {_Dbg_fdi} and <>.  Just as a digit
must preceded the redirection operator without a space, the same is true
for {...}.
> 
> Also, I'd like to test to see if a string name of a device is a valid
> terminal. Here's what I'm currently using:
> 
> 
> function _Dbg_is_tty {
>    (( $# != 1 )) && return 1
>    [[ -r "$1" && -w "$1" ]] && return 0
>    return 1
> }
Shouldn't [[ -t 1 ]] work?
> 
> One could also throw in a test for character devices. But is there
> something better?
> 
> Thanks.

David Korn
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