From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19184 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2003 13:31:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15422 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2003 13:29:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.equallogic.com) (65.170.102.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2003 13:29:43 -0000 Received: from cygnus.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5GDThr12407 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:29:43 -0400 Received: from deneb.dev.equallogic.com (deneb.dev.equallogic.com [172.16.1.99]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5GDTgu12398; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:29:42 -0400 Received: from pkoning.dev.equallogic.com.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dev.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5GDTg731277; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:29:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16109.50758.138766.451235@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:31:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: drow@mvista.com Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: "disconnect" command References: <20030614042642.GA28231@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00528.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz 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