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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Better handling of slow remote transfers
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, "Andrà PÃnitz" <apoenitz at t-online dot de>, Paul_Koning at Dell dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:22:54 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Better handling of slow remote transfers
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Gary Benson writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Since March or so GDB has been able to access inferior binaries for
> remote targets without having to be explicitly told to. This caused
> problems for some people with slow connections:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-07/msg00038.html
>
> The first patch in this series adds the warning messages requested
> in that thread. The second commit should make long transfers
> interruptible.
>
> Built and regtested on RHEL 6.6 x86_64.
>
> Ok to commit?
For 7.10, one thought is to maintain the behaviour of 7.9
and give ourselves more time to address this.
IOW, can we have (or is there already) a configure
option that controls the default behaviour,
and can we default it to what 7.9 does
(not auto-fetch files) ?