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Re: [RFA 02/08] multi-process support: all targets manage inferior list
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:59:10 +0100
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > This looks otherwise OK (though I don't understand when you use
> > add_inferior vs add_inferior_silent).
>
> Hmmm, the initial thought was somewhat similar to the
> use of add_thread_silent in targets that didn't add the main thread
> to the list because they don't support multi-threads. (monitor,
> remote-sim). As in, don't emit a CLI note notification if
> the target pid was made up by GDB and thus should not be visible
> to the user, and emit if otherwise. This one seems to have been
> missed by that logic.
>
> But I agree that this sounds somewhat bogus. It should be the
> the target that should decide what to print... I'll need
> to do a few further adjustments for that to be possible
> though. These CLI notifications are off by default, so we
> can either get rid of add_inferior_silent, or make
> go32-nat.c also use it. Any preference? The attached does
> the latter.
I prefer the way of letting the target decide what to print. Can we
do that?