Decouple "set confirm" from `from_tty'.
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Fri Jan 20 14:31:00 GMT 2012
> Eventually, I figured out this was caused by having done
> "set confirm off" before the source command.
>
> (gdb) source /wrong/path/to/file.py
> /wrong/path/to/file.py: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) set confirm off
> (gdb) source /wrong/path/to/file.py
> (gdb)
>
> This was very surprising to me, and I assume to surprise other
> users too. Turns out that "set confirm off" also has the
> side-effect of running commands with from_tty == 0, which
> silences many things. E.g.,
I agree this is very surprising! I'm even amazed that we did not
realize this until now....
> So I'd like to stop it doing that.
> Comments?
Sounds good to me. To me, "set confirm off" means do everything
the same except auto-answer "y" when I said to do something that
GDB think might be questionable.
No problem spotted with the patch.
--
Joel
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