'info os' additions again

Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net
Thu May 10 18:42:00 GMT 2012


On 5/10/12 11:18 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 07:12 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>> They're waiting for the GDB bits (including the MI patch which is in my queue) to become available, which is why I want to get this resolved one way or another.  It's a little ironic that Eclipse folks, who don't care about command-line syntax, are being blocked on a discussion of command-line syntax. :-)
>>
>> If everybody is tired of the issue, I'll just make a decision; things can always be changed later.
>
> What kind of decision?  What would exactly be the alternative?
>

To pick one of "info os" and "info linux".  I don't think there are many 
other credible alternatives; the subcommand should be a single short 
word, with the rest of the work to be done by subsubcommands and/or 
arguments. "info unix" or "info posix" would qualify, but historically 
we've tended to avoid using those terms in GDB commands, and one could 
argue that they have the same vagueness/overloading issue that "os" does.

Stan



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