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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] "reset" / "create-inferior" commands
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061101230623.GA26112@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611012255.kA1Mtnq5021717@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

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 :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-01 20:28 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-01 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-02  3:06   ` Joel Brobecker
2006-11-01 22:56 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-11-01 23:06   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-11-02  4:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-02 11:53 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-11-02 13:15   ` Frederic RISS
2006-11-03 17:16 David Anderson

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