From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28716 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2005 20:00:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 28701 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Nov 2005 20:00:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:00:48 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-144-137.inter.net.il [80.230.144.137]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BZR32617 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:00:40 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:04:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Vladimir Prus CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <200511221520.24163.ghost@cs.msu.su> (message from Vladimir Prus on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:20:23 +0300) Subject: Re: MI: asynchronous operation details Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20051122121254.GB21117@white> <200511221520.24163.ghost@cs.msu.su> 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: 2005-11/txt/msg00499.txt.bz2 > From: Vladimir Prus > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:20:23 +0300 > > why do I ever want to issue commands while inferior is running? For > which kind of commands is that useful? It would be useful for commands that do not access the running inferior. Simple examples include `help' commands. Less trivial examples include commands that consult the symbol tables. Really tricky commands would be useful if and when GDB supports debugging more than one program--you could examine data in one program while the other one runs. But, as Daniel points out, for now this is just an infrastructure that still awaits to be used.