From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 773 invoked by alias); 10 May 2002 21:07:07 -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 762 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potter.sfbay.redhat.com) (205.180.83.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 May 2002 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from DRAGON (IDENT:eZ549ZnUwQvDac0yxGylbP65efyvSxfg@romulus.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.251]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4AL5lv01184; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:05:47 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Martin M. Hunt" Organization: Red Hat Inc To: Andrew Cagney , "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:07:00 -0000 Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020508232636.GA10279@nevyn.them.org> <3CDC337D.4050407@cygnus.com> In-Reply-To: <3CDC337D.4050407@cygnus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200205101406.13808.hunt@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00369.txt.bz2 On Friday 10 May 2002 01:54 pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > cagney wrote: > >> [...] > >> I think there is a subtle difference between someone understanding > >> that ``UDP is unreliable'' and someone understanding that the remote > >> protocol doesn't work across UDP. > >> [...] > > > > It seems that this train of thought indicates a self-contradictory > > attitude. Either the remote protocol is "good enough" over udp, or it > > isn't. If on one hand you think it's good enough to be included > > within mainline gdb, then don't argue that it's not good enough to > > actually work. > > Not really. > > UDP across the loopback interface is 100% reliable. Across cheap > overloaded thin-wire definitly isn't. Not true, but not important. I don't understand what the fuss is about. The "users" for UDP are not clueless people who are going to accidently connect to a target with UDP. They are probably embedded engineers trying to get new hardware running with GDB ASAP. So warn them, but there is no reason to harrass them. -- Martin Hunt GDB Engineer Red Hat, Inc.