From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16119 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2003 15:05:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16032 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2003 15:04:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2003 15:04:59 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C55432B5F; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3EEDDC98.6050407@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:05:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Paul Koning , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: "disconnect" command References: <20030614042642.GA28231@nevyn.them.org> <16109.50758.138766.451235@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <20030616134103.GA17403@nevyn.them.org> <16109.52652.901052.156258@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <20030616143810.GA8603@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00532.txt.bz2 > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:01:16AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > >> >> Daniel> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: >> >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: >> >> ... >> Daniel> Refresher on this one: the patch adds a "disconnect" commad, >> Daniel> and implements it for remote targets. "disconnect" leaves >> Daniel> the target stopped, while "detach" usually resumes it. >> Daniel> Useful with kgdb, gdbserver, et cetera. >> >> Useful indeed. But there is nothing in the names "detach" and >> >> "disconnect" that suggests how they differ. Would it be possible >> >> to have command names that are suggestive of their action? >> >> Daniel> The last time I proposed this, we went back and forth for a >> Daniel> week on names and this was the best we could come up with. >> Daniel> Have you got a better suggestion? >> >> Nothing really promising. But how about doing this with an (optional) >> argument on the "detach" command, e.g., "detach stop" and "detach go" >> with the latter being the default? > > > That's similar to what I suggested originally, though it makes a little > more sense. If other people like it I'll switch, but I don't really > think it's better than disconnect. There was: connect / disconnect attach / detach as pairs. Andrew