Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:44:50PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > A patch for this feature was supported a year or so ago, but never went in.
> > I had a need for this a couple of days ago, so I did it over from scratch;
> > it's much easier now than it was at the time.  The name of ser-tcp.c is a
> > bit wrong after this patch; I can either rename the file to ser-net.c or
> > just update some comments to match.  Got a preference?  Otherwise OK?
> > 
> > --
> > Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> 
> Wow!  I love the simplicity of the change.  Nice job.

I actually leave non-blocking connects enabled for UDP, because it kept
the changes smaller.  It's kind of silly, if you think about it, though :)

> I'm not sure if I understand all the ramifications, though.
> If you call net_open, how is it going to decide whether 
> to use udp or tcp?  I imagine we would want it to use
> tcp by preference, if possible.

Ack, I forgot to include the accompanying documentation changes.  Bad
Dan!  The gist is that you can say "host:port" or ":port" and get TCP,
"udp:host:port" or "udp::port" and get UDP, or "tcp:host:port" or
"tcp::port" and get TCP.  So you can connect by TCP to a host named
UDP, etc.

Here's the matching documentation patch.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

2002-05-08  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Debug Session): Document new `udp:' and `tcp:'
	options for `target remote'.

Index: gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.98
diff -u -r1.98 gdb.texinfo
--- gdb.texinfo	4 May 2002 16:00:30 -0000	1.98
+++ gdb.texinfo	9 May 2002 00:10:17 -0000
@@ -10485,7 +10485,8 @@
 
 @cindex TCP port, @code{target remote}
 To use a TCP connection, use an argument of the form
-@code{@var{host}:port}.  For example, to connect to port 2828 on a
+@code{@var{host}:@var{port}} or @code{tcp:@var{host}:@var{port}}.
+For example, to connect to port 2828 on a
 terminal server named @code{manyfarms}:
 
 @smallexample
@@ -10503,6 +10504,15 @@
 @noindent
 
 Note that the colon is still required here.
+
+@cindex UDP port, @code{target remote}
+To use a UDP connection, use an argument of the form
+@code{udp:@var{host}:@var{port}}.  For example, to connect to UDP port 2828
+on a terminal server named @code{manyfarms}:
+
+@smallexample
+target remote udp:manyfarms:2828
+@end smallexample
 @end enumerate
 
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