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Re: GDB needs a --cmdline option


> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:24:53 +0000
> From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
> 
> We don't want gdb to print a prompt and much less try to read from stdin
> unless some event happen and activate the debugger.  It should not interfere
> and stop your script if the execution of the inferior goes smooth.

Agreed.  But I still don't see where the problem is.  How is --cmdline
different from the following:

	  gdb --quiet foo
	  r

The only thing we need to do is to make sure GDB exits right after the
inferior does, without displaying the prompt.  Is that a problem?

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