Re: RFA: [ser-unix.c] Fix handling of baud rates

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:45:36 -0400
> From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
> 
> > > But as we are adding a warning(), why not just say:
> > >   "Illegal baud rate %d; using %d instead."
> > 
> > Can you prompt for another value (after making sure this is an
> > interactive session)?
> 
> We already prompt for many things, but I believe we want to get rid of
> these prompts outside the interpreters.  It complicates the
> interpreter<->libgdb protocol, I've heard.  The idea is that idempotent
> libgdb operations fail and the interpreter (after asking the user what
> to do) retries them with the proper values.

Yes, that makes sense.  Is there any way that libgdb can give the
interpreter an indication that it wants to prompt the user?

> So, we would have to go with the error solution until that is fixed.
> 
> Is that right?

I'm not very experienced with debugging such boards, but it sounds
that a failure would indeed be the best way out.