From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3518 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2008 12:09:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 3506 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Aug 2008 12:09:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:08:37 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF51A98100; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E5898015; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KSsfz-0007b7-8W; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:08:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Vladimir Prus Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [MI non-stop 06/11, RFA/RFC] Report non-stop availability, and allow to enable everything with one command. Message-ID: <20080812120835.GA29188@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Vladimir Prus , Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200806282054.03092.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <20080805182735.GA7381@caradoc.them.org> <200808052008.47713.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200808121009.11540.vladimir@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808121009.11540.vladimir@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00312.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:09:11AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > My motivation was that the most intuitive model is that of > immediate application of non-stop flag, with error produced > immediately. This is hard to implement. > > Next most intuitive model is "I prefer non-stop mode", which is > what I propose. Actually I think this is very unintuitive. You'll have to know whether you get non-stop or not because commands act very differently between all-stop and non-stop. Scripts written for the one won't work with the other, for example. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery