RE: Anyone using Decoda IDE?

Hi Paul

The pipe code was written some time ago, my memory was playing tricks, it wasn't an anonymous pipe as I first said, its a named pipe. It was a very basic implementation, the read is non blocking and polled.

Geoff

> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:18:24 -0700
> From: paulclinger@yahoo.com
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Re: Anyone using Decoda IDE?
>
> Hi Geoff,
>
> > Maybe an alternative approach might be possible as you mentioned, adding a few line of
> > code that interfaced ZBS to the exe via a pipe. Coincidentally, my app is already using an
> > anonymous pipe to pass data back and forth between a GUI exe.
>
> Interesting. Do you use stdin/stdout to pass messages back and forth?
> How do you deal with blocking io? Or do you use fcntl to switch to
> non-blocking reads/writes?
>
> It *may* be possible to do something like this for ZBS (assuming you'd
> start the executable from ZBS and input/output are redirected), but it
> would require a different interaction between the debugger and the IDE
> from what's currently implemented. You'd lose all features that
> require non-blocking io (like suspending a running application), but
> the rest of the debugger functionality should still work.
>
> Paul.
>