From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16086 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2004 05:10:02 -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 16053 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 05:09:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 7 Dec 2004 05:09:58 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbXbm-0003iM-WC; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:09:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:24:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andreas Schwab Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Enable hidden option -l Message-ID: <20041207050954.GE4648@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Schwab , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:42:04AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > GDB has (since the beginning of CVS history) a hidden option -l that can > be used to set the timeout for remote communication. But it was never > possible to pass it because it is missing from long_options. > > The option is quite useful when debugging gdbserver. This is the same as "set remotetimeout". I can see how the command line argument would be useful, though. Eli and I both think this is a good idea; so I'll approve the code change. -- Daniel Jacobowitz