Re: [RFA] bpstat_do_actions in one place

Vladimir Prus
2008-05-05T12:58:59Z

On Monday 05 May 2008 15:48:24 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:04:05PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > In fact, things will go bad. I've checked in the following version of the
> > patch that uses RETURN_MASK_ALL.
>
> RETURN_MASK_ALL is almost never a good idea. Quit will now not quit
> all the way back to a prompt. Is that really what we want either?

Well, this was the behaviour I though to be the most reasonable.

> For instance, a program running in a while (1) loop with a breakpoint
> set in it, and the breakpoint has a command that produces output, like
> backtrace. Quit will now resume the program and generate another
> backtrace, I think.

Yes, I think so; seems fine to me. Is there any documentation for how
'quit' should generally work, especially inside breakpoint commands?

- Volodya