RFC: Syntax for logging

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

Folks may remember the thread from a year ago:
  RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-07/msg00458.html

I eventually decided that my prefered syntax was:
  redirect [-a] [FILE [COMMAND]]
  log [-a] [FILE [COMMAND]]
But people didn't care for the use of "-a".  I still like this syntax; it's
symmetric, and it allows clearly "transcript [-a]".  But it's pretty clear
to me that we won't reach a consensus on that.  I believe Fernando liked it
and Andrew didn't.

I believe the best alternative at this point is:
 set logging [redirect|log] [append|overwrite] FILE
 show logging
The defaults would be log,overwrite; they could be explicitly specified in
order to overwrite a log file named append, if one wanted to do that.

Comments, anyone?  Shall I repost the patch with that change?  I'd really
like to see this feature added.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer