From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-patches-return-86533-listarch-gdb-patches=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 7829 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2011 22:03:14 -0000
Received: (qmail 7820 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Dec 2011 22:03:13 -0000
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_SOFTFAIL
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il (HELO mtaout23.012.net.il) (80.179.55.175)    by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:02:56 +0000
Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LWV00300UD5TV00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:02:54 +0200 (IST)
Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LWV003ZVUKRSO10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:02:54 +0200 (IST)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:23:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4)
In-reply-to: <201112272124.pBRLOdtk012930@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: stanshebs@earthlink.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Message-id: <8362h1wu3y.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <4E95DC58.7030805@codesourcery.com> <m3lisedpv0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4ECD3496.1070609@codesourcery.com> <4EF9497B.9020501@earthlink.net> <E1RfQXH-0004RB-1H@fencepost.gnu.org> <201112272124.pBRLOdtk012930@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb-patches.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-patches-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00852.txt.bz2

> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:24:39 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: stanshebs@earthlink.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Eli, I don't think your objection makes a lot of sense.

That kind of argument is not an efficient way of making me change my
mind.

>  The "info os"
> is a generic command for displaying "osdata" that's made available by
> the backend.  It is for the backend to decide what information is made
> available.  This diff just adds a bit more "osdata" to the Linux
> native backend and the Linux gdbserver remote backend.

Then let's lump there also the DOS- and Windows-specific "info"
commands for a good measure.

IOW, either "info os" is a hodgepodge of every OS-specific information
we provide about the process being debugged, or we have OS-specific
"info FOO" ("info dos", "info w32", "info linux", etc.) commands.
Having some of this and some of that is just inconsistent.