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From: Gareth McMullin <gareth@blacksphere.co.nz>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/15275
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL8qUbrXomjiUREukyKnP_S73MvfWLi8kUOWbMOZJpHoW=vF6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515478BE.3030801@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> So, per Gareth's analysis, with tcp, where this is not reproducible,
> we don't error out on sends, but instead detect the error on the
> subsequent readchar.  When that read fails, we throw the target away,
> and throw TARGET_CLOSE_ERROR.  He was suggesting making ser-unix.c
> fake success too on failed writes, so we'd get to readchar detecting
> the error on serial ports too.  But, why not let the error
> propagate out of serial_write, and catch it at the remote level
> instead of delaying the inevitable?  IOW, throw away the target
> if writing fails too.

I like this approach, it is a better solution.  Thank you.

Gareth


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAL8qUbrD=fgMP7nE0O8tX=AXifUpQXas25o_4SfK4p79rfoUpw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-14  2:02 ` Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/51275 Gareth McMullin
2013-03-20 17:13   ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-03-21  1:15     ` Gareth McMullin
2013-03-21  8:20       ` Gareth McMullin
2013-03-26  7:27   ` Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/15275 Jan Kratochvil
2013-03-27 20:17     ` [commit+7.6] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-03-28 20:14     ` Pedro Alves
2013-03-28 21:11       ` [PATCH] make -gdb-exit call disconnect_tracing too, and don't lose history if the target errors on "quit" (was: Re: Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/15275) Pedro Alves
2013-04-10 19:57         ` [PATCH] make -gdb-exit call disconnect_tracing too, and don't lose history if the target errors on "quit" Pedro Alves
2013-03-29  0:44       ` Gareth McMullin [this message]
2013-03-29 16:26       ` Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/15275 Jan Kratochvil
2013-04-02 15:24         ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-02 15:26           ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-04-09  7:15       ` [PATCH] Avoid potencially-stale errno usage (was: Re: Include putpkt in TRY_CATCH. PR gdb/15275) Pedro Alves
2013-04-09  8:21         ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-04-09 15:28           ` [commit] Re: [PATCH] Avoid potencially-stale errno usage Pedro Alves
2013-04-11 12:53             ` [patch] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-04-11 16:55               ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-11 22:59                 ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil

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