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Re: RFA: "disconnect" command
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?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer