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Re: RFA: "disconnect" command
- From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- To: drow at mvista dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:29:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFA: "disconnect" command
- References: <20030614042642.GA28231@nevyn.them.org>
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
Daniel> This patch got tabled shortly before 5.3, due to bad timing
Daniel> on my part. Now here we are coming up on 6.0 and my timing's
Daniel> no better... this is the first of several old patches that I
Daniel> would like to see included in 6.0, assuming I get the time to
Daniel> revisit them all.
Daniel> Refresher on this one: the patch adds a "disconnect" commad,
Daniel> and implements it for remote targets. "disconnect" leaves
Daniel> the target stopped, while "detach" usually resumes it.
Daniel> Useful with kgdb, gdbserver, et cetera.
Useful indeed. But there is nothing in the names "detach" and
"disconnect" that suggests how they differ. Would it be possible to
have command names that are suggestive of their action?
paul