From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6287 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2010 03:28:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 6272 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Feb 2010 03:28:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:28:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225DB2BAAEA; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:28:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id C6xFrt0fWSyw; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:28:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C5F2BAADB; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:28:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69C15F59A2; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 07:28:01 +0400 (RET) Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:28:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: scott.harrison@tandberg.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: New feature: allow thread command to take a LWPID. Message-ID: <20100205032801.GD2715@adacore.com> References: <20100204113543.GB2704@tandberg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-02/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 > I am not super fond of the syntax. I don't have a better suggestion > though :-( I agree about the syntax. How about using a command "switch". For instance: (gdb) thread THREAD_NO (gdb) thread /l LWP We could even think of adding: (gdb) thread /t TID (for the platforms that use the tid rather than the lwp). -- Joel