From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ser-tcp.c: Use `localhost' as default hostname
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 23:54:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010802095546.28510I-100000@is>
References: <3B684BBA.4090209@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00026.html

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > I don't like to type
> > 
> >   target remote localhost:1234
> > 
> > all the time. It"s possible to abbreviate it to
> > 
> >   ta r localhost:1234
> > 
> > but I don't see a need to type `localhost'. I would like to have
> > `localhost' as default if no hostname is given like in:
> > 
> >   ta r :1234
> 
> I don't have an opinion.  Does anyone strongly object or concure with this?

Can the string after "target remote" ever be a file name?  If so, the
code that implements this should need to exercise caution not to break
the DOS/Windows drive-letter brain-damage.