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From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
To: drow@mvista.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: "disconnect" command
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16109.50758.138766.451235@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030614042642.GA28231@nevyn.them.org>

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

 Daniel> This patch got tabled shortly before 5.3, due to bad timing
 Daniel> on my part. Now here we are coming up on 6.0 and my timing's
 Daniel> no better... this is the first of several old patches that I
 Daniel> would like to see included in 6.0, assuming I get the time to
 Daniel> revisit them all.

 Daniel> Refresher on this one: the patch adds a "disconnect" commad,
 Daniel> and implements it for remote targets.  "disconnect" leaves
 Daniel> the target stopped, while "detach" usually resumes it.
 Daniel> Useful with kgdb, gdbserver, et cetera.

Useful indeed.  But there is nothing in the names "detach" and
"disconnect" that suggests how they differ.  Would it be possible to
have command names that are suggestive of their action?

     paul


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-16 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-14  4:26 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-14  8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-16 13:31 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2003-06-16 13:41   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-16 14:01     ` Paul Koning
2003-06-16 14:38       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-16 15:05         ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-16 23:47           ` Michael Snyder
2003-06-17  1:06             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-17 14:29               ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-16 23:46     ` Michael Snyder
2003-06-17 14:59 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-17 22:00   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-17 22:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-19  1:32       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-18 14:22     ` Andrew Cagney

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