From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13234 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2003 15:59:37 -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 13204 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 15:59:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.166.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 15:59:35 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084BC2B7F; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F2E82E6.1080902@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:59:00 -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: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc, rfa:doco, 6.0] "set backtrace past-main|limit" References: <3F2C4642.4010409@redhat.com> <3F2E5CD7.6010403@redhat.com> <7458-Mon04Aug2003181932+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 > Doesn't `error' say something like "Error: ..."? If so, I think it's > wrong to scare the user like that. Perhaps we should have a way to > silently abort the command, if we don't have that already. Then we > could print a message and quitely stop the command. There isn't an "Error: ..." prefix (well not that I've noticed). The text that you see is all that the user would see. It's possible to abort the command silently (by throwing a quit) but I think that would confuse the user more. Andrew