Michel Hidalgo

@tfoote friendly ping

> Where is the published API for `launch_ros`? @adamsj-ros To the best of my knowledge, we don't currently host generated documentation anywhere, unfortunately. A lot of work has gone into...

Apologies for the delay! > Crashes occur as an inferior thread and gdb prompt is never returned. Yes, that's expected. `ros2 launch` cannot return the `gdb` prompt, as `launch` itself...

> then that should be outright removed from the design documentation I don't think it should be removed. Launch prefix **does work**, and can be used to execute a process...

> Can you show that? I'm 95% sure I tried with xterm and also failed to produce a gdb session. I spent a half a day trying a bunch of...

@SteveMacenski let me know if using `xterm` does the trick :)

I agree we need a very big sign saying that `launch` does not yield access to processes' standard input. But I fail to see why using `xterm` (or similar) is...

> Else, like what I ran into, folks end up spinning their wheels not knowing what we're trying to do is impossible but previously common (and documentation implies that it...

@wjwwood you beat me to it :joy: As William mentioned, @adamsj-oci for your use case i.e. a single (remote?) terminal in a machine that has no X server running, you...

@sloretz #8 just got merged, mind to check if this is still working and put it on review (or not)?