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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4)
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be important to this discussion to consider that in its present fo=
rm,
> "info os" is more useful in its MI variant, where the frontend queries
> GDB for what tables does the backend expose (with "info os"), and then
> presents them in spreadsheet-like format, all without any hardcoding.
> =A0Exposing
> more bits in the GNU/Linux backends serves the purpose of being the
> reference implementation / proof-of-concept.

IWBN to expose such functionality to python without python having to
parse the CLI output (i.e. funnel the xml to python).