Re: RFA: "disconnect" command

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:01:16AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > >
> > >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>  Daniel> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > >>  >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > >>  >> ...
> > >>  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?
> > >>
> > >>  Daniel> The last time I proposed this, we went back and forth for a
> > >>  Daniel> week on names and this was the best we could come up with.
> > >>  Daniel> Have you got a better suggestion?
> > >>
> > >> Nothing really promising.  But how about doing this with an (optional)
> > >> argument on the "detach" command, e.g., "detach stop" and "detach go"
> > >> with the latter being the default?
> > >
> > >
> > > That's similar to what I suggested originally, though it makes a little
> > > more sense.  If other people like it I'll switch, but I don't really
> > > think it's better than disconnect.
> > 
> > There was:
> >         connect / disconnect
> >         attach / detach
> > as pairs.
> 
> Argh.  But "connect" isn't really analogous to attach.
> It's analogous to "target remote".

Well, there is no "connect" - in fact "target remote" is paired with
disconnect.

Still open to better ideas on the naming; but either way I'd like to
commit this before another release goes by...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer