From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29027 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2014 06:54:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29012 invoked by uid 89); 20 Aug 2014 06:54:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:54:18 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1XJzmh-0000qR-94 from Yao_Qi@mentor.com ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:54:15 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-06.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.120]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:54:15 -0700 Received: from qiyao.dyndns.org (147.34.91.1) by SVR-ORW-FEM-06.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.120) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.247.3; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:54:14 -0700 Message-ID: <53F4452E.9070902@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:54:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Evans CC: gdb-patches Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Keep track of files copied to host and target References: <1408075184-25947-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <53EDA303.90701@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00383.txt.bz2 On 08/16/2014 08:38 AM, Doug Evans wrote: > We could instead have a convention that we just don't bother to clean > up files downloaded to remote hosts. This patch https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-11/msg00264.html is the first one downloading files to remote host and deleting them when test is finished. After that, people just follow this convention, and add test cases in this way. Unfortunately, no technical reason is mentioned in the patch about why we have to delete files on remote host. > Sure, but I'd like to get a better understanding of the technical > reasons for doing so. I don't know any technical reasons either. What I can tell from the patch above is that "the first person did so, and the rest follow the way he did". Looks this patch set review is stalled. You worried about the direction or convention that we only delete part of files copied to host, but I don't know the answer of your questions, which are about the convention rather than patches. I don't think my patch set makes it worse or better. It still make the effect of running testsuite unchanged, in terms of files left on target and host. At the same time, fails in gdb.python on remote host are still there because patch 3/3 is pending. My goal of this patch series is to fix these fails, but I don't know how to move forward now. -- Yao (齐尧)