From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Decouple "set confirm" from `from_tty'.
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120113331.GM31383@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F194C6F.2080404@redhat.com>
> Eventually, I figured out this was caused by having done
> "set confirm off" before the source command.
>
> (gdb) source /wrong/path/to/file.py
> /wrong/path/to/file.py: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) set confirm off
> (gdb) source /wrong/path/to/file.py
> (gdb)
>
> This was very surprising to me, and I assume to surprise other
> users too. Turns out that "set confirm off" also has the
> side-effect of running commands with from_tty == 0, which
> silences many things. E.g.,
I agree this is very surprising! I'm even amazed that we did not
realize this until now....
> So I'd like to stop it doing that.
> Comments?
Sounds good to me. To me, "set confirm off" means do everything
the same except auto-answer "y" when I said to do something that
GDB think might be questionable.
No problem spotted with the patch.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 11:33 Pedro Alves
2012-01-20 14:31 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-01-23 17:36 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-23 16:30 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-23 17:15 ` Pedro Alves
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