From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Syntax for logging
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF5EFAD.6010401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030621172358.GA8711@nevyn.them.org>
> Folks may remember the thread from a year ago:
> RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-07/msg00458.html
>
> I eventually decided that my prefered syntax was:
> redirect [-a] [FILE [COMMAND]]
> log [-a] [FILE [COMMAND]]
> But people didn't care for the use of "-a". I still like this syntax; it's
> symmetric, and it allows clearly "transcript [-a]". But it's pretty clear
> to me that we won't reach a consensus on that. I believe Fernando liked it
> and Andrew didn't.
>
> I believe the best alternative at this point is:
> set logging [redirect|log] [append|overwrite] FILE
> show logging
> The defaults would be log,overwrite; they could be explicitly specified in
> order to overwrite a log file named append, if one wanted to do that.
>
> Comments, anyone? Shall I repost the patch with that change? I'd really
> like to see this feature added.
Set show are consistent with the command line syntax. How does one turn
it off?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-22 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-21 17:24 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-21 18:01 ` Doug Evans
2003-06-22 18:04 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-06-22 18:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-22 18:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-22 18:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-22 19:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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