Re: [rfc] 'thread tid' command

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Friday 11 February 2011 22:12:39, Michael Snyder wrote:
> This is purposefully rough, 'cause I hope for discussion.
> 
> This is a new command to help manage large thread lists.
> I started with the idea "I want to find out which thread
> has target id 12345", then extended it to also handle the
> new concept of thread names (which thread has name 'foo'),
> and extra info as well (which thread has extra info that
> includes the string "xyz").
> 
> The syntax (I'm open to renaming etc.):
> 
>    thread tid [NAME | TARGET_ID | EXTRA_INFO]

Shouldn't this be under "info" or "show"?

> The output:
> 
>    Thread %d has name '%s'  or
>    Thread %d has target id '%s' or
>    Thread %d has extra info '%s'
> 
> The user can then use the given thread id as input to the
> thread command, info threads, etc.
> 
> Comments?

I think that if you made this accept a regex, it'll
end up being much more useful.  Particularly, to filter
the extra info fields.  Another interesting filter
could be: threads stopped in "foo_regex" function,
or address.

But still, the user will still have to manually pick
the output of the previous command.  I think it'd even
be better if the command had a switch that created a
thread group (itset or thread set, whatever) from the threads
that matched.  Only problem is we don't have thread
sets support, yet.

-- 
Pedro Alves