From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16819 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2006 23:06:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 16709 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2006 23:06:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:06:26 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GfPA7-0006qV-Q5; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:06:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:06:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc] "reset" / "create-inferior" commands Message-ID: <20061101230623.GA26112@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20061101202811.GA20484@nevyn.them.org> <200611012255.kA1Mtnq5021717@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611012255.kA1Mtnq5021717@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 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