From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16201 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 06:45:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 16193 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2009 06:45:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:45:06 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mn5J9-0007NA-81 for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:45:03 +0200 Received: from h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru ([86.62.88.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:45:03 +0200 Received: from vladimir by h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:45:03 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: Another proposal for frontends and queries. Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00393.txt.bz2 Marc Khouzam wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting a new thread in an attempt to get this issue resolved before 7.0. > > Three-line recap of the issue: > > For some frontends queries are answered automatically by GDB. > Because of this, some actions that the frontends wants to trigger > are automatically cancelled by GDB. ... > My latest idea, based on the reactions to the previous suggestions > is to extend "set confirm" and add a new "force" option. > set confirm on/off would remain as before > set confirm force would automatically answer 'y' to all queries. So, the current problem is that some queries for which the frontend wants implicit 'yes' are answered as 'no'. You propose an option to make all queries answered as 'yes'. What if frontend wants some query answered as 'no'? - Volodya