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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] "reset" / "create-inferior" commands
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <upsc66gze.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061101202811.GA20484@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:28:11 -0500)

> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:28:11 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> I haven't seen a good name which works for both scenarios.  The best idea so
> far comes from Paul Brook - if we call the new command "reset", it's
> accurate for boards, and not terribly awkward for native processes.
> Alternatively, we could add two names for the command which did the same
> thing ("create-inferior" or "create-process" as an alias for "reset").
> 
> [I would actually have picked "restart" over "reset", but that's taken for
> checkpoints.  We could still steal it and use "restart checkpoint 1" for
> checkpoints, if others think restart is preferable to reset.]
> 
> Any comments on this name?  I keep wanting the command, so I'd like to find
> an acceptable name, and then I can go ahead and implement it.

"restart" is good, IMHO.  Some alternative names we might consider:
reinvoke, start-again.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-01 20:28 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-01 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-11-02  3:06   ` Joel Brobecker
2006-11-01 22:56 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-11-01 23:06   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-02  4:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-02 11:53 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-11-02 13:15   ` Frederic RISS
2006-11-03 17:16 David Anderson

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