From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5688 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2006 04:50:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 5672 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Nov 2006 04:50:33 -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, 29 Nov 2006 04:50:26 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpHOd-0003uN-Fy; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:50:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: John Pye Cc: Andrew STUBBS , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB Message-ID: <20061129045011.GA14992@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Pye , Andrew STUBBS , gdb@sourceware.org References: <456A79B5.2020505@anu.edu.au> <456AFA30.80508@st.com> <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au> 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-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00209.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:26:48PM +1100, John Pye wrote: > I think that the 'Quit' message is great. But instead of *suggesting*, > it should ask for confirmation: "Ctrl-C pressed from GDB console. Do you > want to exit? (y or n)". Then this confirmation could be turned off > somewhere in the configuration settings. It's not suggesting that you exit. It means, roughly, the previously executing gdb command has been quit. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery