Re: [patch] [gdbserver] Fix multi-GB error log files

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:42:56 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> I'm worried about whether this breaks use
> cases.  E.g., as is, you can spawn several instances of
> gdbserver + connect, while only needing to open one port in
> your firewall.  Or perhaps IDEs are relying on that when
> spawning the second (and nth) connections to the same
> board (while leaving the previous sessions still running).

In such case we can make --once default:

On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:55:36 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
# Also when --once is already introduced it could be made default (that is
# introduce an option "--permanent" to keep the current behavior).  But this
# changes the behavior of gdbserver which the users may be used to.

It was not made the default just for backward compatibility which you state
got broken anyway.


Thanks,
Jan