Re: [rfc] "reset" / "create-inferior" commands

Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-01T20:37:33Z

> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:28:11 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> I haven't seen a good name which works for both scenarios. The best idea so
> far comes from Paul Brook - if we call the new command "reset", it's
> accurate for boards, and not terribly awkward for native processes.
> Alternatively, we could add two names for the command which did the same
> thing ("create-inferior" or "create-process" as an alias for "reset").
>
> [I would actually have picked "restart" over "reset", but that's taken for
> checkpoints. We could still steal it and use "restart checkpoint 1" for
> checkpoints, if others think restart is preferable to reset.]
>
> Any comments on this name? I keep wanting the command, so I'd like to find
> an acceptable name, and then I can go ahead and implement it.

"restart" is good, IMHO. Some alternative names we might consider:
reinvoke, start-again.