[PATCH 0/2] Better handling of slow remote transfers
Doug Evans
dje@google.com
Tue Aug 11 17:22:00 GMT 2015
Gary Benson writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Since March or so GDB has been able to access inferior binaries for
> remote targets without having to be explicitly told to. This caused
> problems for some people with slow connections:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-07/msg00038.html
>
> The first patch in this series adds the warning messages requested
> in that thread. The second commit should make long transfers
> interruptible.
>
> Built and regtested on RHEL 6.6 x86_64.
>
> Ok to commit?
For 7.10, one thought is to maintain the behaviour of 7.9
and give ourselves more time to address this.
IOW, can we have (or is there already) a configure
option that controls the default behaviour,
and can we default it to what 7.9 does
(not auto-fetch files) ?
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