[lldb-dev] strange behaviour at lldb cmd line

[Shawn Best]

Hi Ed,

I tried your hack.  I can confirm that inserting a 100ms sleep around 
line 3530 of Process.cpp fixes the issue of the (lldb) prompt getting 
scrambled on linux.

Shawn.

On 6/19/2014 12:18 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
>>> On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Shawn Best <sbest at blueshiftinc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I would like to start contributing to lldb project and help improve it on linux.  I am seeing some strange behaviour that makes lldb appear a little flakey.  Some details of my system:
>>>
>>> - Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit running inside a VM on windows
>>> - built from top of top of tree with gcc 4.8.2.  Issue happens either configure/make or cmake/ninja
>>> - stock lldb-3.4 version shipped with Ubuntu does not exhibit this behaviour
>>>
>>> There are two intermittent issues:  1. When I run a program, I see messages that do not belong (indicating the process was stopped)  2.  There appears to be a race condition sending text to the console where (lldb) prompt will come out of order making it appear there is no command prompt.
> Hi Shawn,
>
> There are also some previous threads on this topic in the archives
> that could help give you some background.  The discussion was in reply
> to the r202525 commit message.
>
> I described a hacky workaround that works for me in:
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/lldb-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140519/011166.html
>
> Can you give it a try?  If it "works" for you that will at least
> suggest we share the same issue on FreeBSD and Linux.
>
> -Ed