From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13303 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2007 00:24:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 13293 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2007 00:24:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:24:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 12137 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 00:24:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 1 Nov 2007 00:24:35 -0000 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: File transfer commands References: <20071029195510.GA18673@caradoc.them.org> <200710292029.l9TKTfow009984@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <20071029204052.GA875@caradoc.them.org> <20071030184140.GA6970@caradoc.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20071030184140.GA6970@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:41:40 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2007-11/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:29:12AM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote: >> Yeah, 'remote ls' seems like the logical missing piece. Why not use >> 'vFile:' as the prefix for delete, and qXfer for read and write? > > No preference really besides bikeshed. More consistency with qXfer, > less with other file operations. Is the annex the filename or an open > file descriptor? It's not a big deal to me at all. I think the person hashing out the details, writing the docs, and doing the implementation gets to make the call.