On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:25:24PM -0800, Andrew Certain wrote: > In a normal UNIX environment, you can run the perl debugger > and still redirect an input file to stdin. In other words, > > perl -d myscript < mydata > > does the right thing, namely, that you enter the debugger, the debugger > reads input from the keyboard, but if the script reads from STDIN, it gets > lines from mydata. > > Under cygwin, however, the same invocation causes the debugger to read > commands from mydata.
There's probably something the debugger is doing for linux but not for cygwin because it thinks cygwin can't do it, but a quick scan of perl5db.pl didn't reveal it to me. Doing PERLDB_OPTS=TTY=/dev/tty perl -d ... should work, though. > Please include this line when replying. Is this some kind of behaviorist experiment? What's my prize? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
