From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27300 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2003 14:01:22 -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 27051 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2003 14:01:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.equallogic.com) (65.170.102.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2003 14:01:20 -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 h5GE1Ir13043 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:01:18 -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 h5GE1Hu13034; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:01:17 -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 h5GE1H532297; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:01:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16109.52652.901052.156258@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:01:00 -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> <16109.50758.138766.451235@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <20030616134103.GA17403@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00530.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Daniel> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: >> ... 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? Daniel> The last time I proposed this, we went back and forth for a Daniel> week on names and this was the best we could come up with. Daniel> Have you got a better suggestion? Nothing really promising. But how about doing this with an (optional) argument on the "detach" command, e.g., "detach stop" and "detach go" with the latter being the default? paul