Re: [PATCH] An implementation of pipe to make I/O communication between gdb and shell.

[Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Friday 05 August 2011 10:41:09, Abhijit Halder wrote:
>> I am not sure whether this restriction is meaningful. Ideally we
>> should not support any alpha-numeric character as a delimiter just
>> because of readability purpose. e.g.
>> (gdb) pipe dthread apply all btdvim -
>> Here d is delimiter. I don't think the above one is acceptable. Please
>> suggest me if we simply can put a restriction of not using any
>> alpha-numeric character as delimiter and that will do.
>> Secondly I believe by FOO you meant a single character and not a
>> string. Between delimiter and command there is no restriction of
>> having any white-space.
>
> Speaking for myself, when I wrote PIPE and FOO before, I really
> meant a string (with no whitespace), not a single character.
>
> In your example above:
>
>  (gdb) pipe dthread apply all btdvim -
>
> the delimiter would be `dthread'.  I see no reason to
> require it to be a single character.
>
Just a thought. Can't using a single character make the life simple?
That will surely reduce the options for delimiter. But as you said,
like sed this can be used.
> --
> Pedro Alves
>