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

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-01T23:06:31Z

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:55:49PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> This sounds like a command I've always wanted, but I don't associate
> it at all with "reset". "create-inferior" might be more appropriate,
> but I don't think it'll make sense to people who don't know GDB's
> internals. How about "setup"? Sounds to me like that's what this
> command will do; setting up a new process to be debugged.

That does seem more intuitive.

Mark, Eli, how do you feel about using both "restart" and "setup"?
While they're the same action in GDB internals, I think they're
different actions from the user's point of view.

I'm not going to rush ahead on this - I feel like I've been trying to
come up with a good name for this command for a year now :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery