Re: RFA: "disconnect" command

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
>  Daniel> This patch got tabled shortly before 5.3, due to bad timing
>  Daniel> on my part. Now here we are coming up on 6.0 and my timing's
>  Daniel> no better... this is the first of several old patches that I
>  Daniel> would like to see included in 6.0, assuming I get the time to
>  Daniel> revisit them all.
> 
>  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?

The last time I proposed this, we went back and forth for a week on
names and this was the best we could come up with.  Have you got a
better suggestion?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer