From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18419 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2006 20:37:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 18408 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2006 20:37:32 -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; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:37:26 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-68-222.inter.net.il [80.230.68.222]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FBJ19663 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:37:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:37:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20061101202811.GA20484@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:28:11 -0500) Subject: Re: [rfc] "reset" / "create-inferior" commands Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20061101202811.GA20484@nevyn.them.org> 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: 2006-11/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:28:11 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > 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.