From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31819 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2002 04:29:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31667 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 04:29:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 04:29:45 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C223E8F; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:29:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C352FB8.2010607@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011207 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: A copy/save command ... References: <3C341E2D.6050009@cygnus.com> <20020103155801.A12966@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:02:37AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: >> better suggestions welcome. > > > Perhaps not the best name - we want to be able to both read and write, > and it's not clear which way copy goes. I don't want to end up doing > magic thinking that ``this looks like an address, not a filename'' to > figure that out. Lets be honest, ``copy'' is a really bad name. For all those reasons and probably more :-) > Perhaps read/write? But that's still not clear which way is which. > load/store would be perfect but load is already used. store is interesting. Perhaps Michael's ``gcore'' command be called store? Probably not since it is createing a core file and not an executable. However as an alias it might make sense. read/write are also interesting. Good documentation and a help message should clarify the direction. With read, care would be needed since ``r'' is short for ``run''. Andrew