[PATCH 0/2] Better handling of slow remote transfers

[Pedro Alves]

On 08/12/2015 11:38 AM, Gary Benson wrote:

> It seems like you're saying this series is a big change, but it's
> really not: the core of it is that little snippet of logic, which
> is easy enough to reason about:
> 
>   IF target filesystem is remote
>      AND auto_target_prefix is enabled
>      AND no sysroot is set
>      AND (we're looking for an executable
>           OR we're looking for a solib loaded by a target-prefixed executable):
>        Prefix the filename with "target:"
> 

IIUC, it still auto fetches the executable and then the solibs from the
target by default (e.g., after "attach"), so still subject to lack
of interruptibility?

> It's certainly way less invasive a change than making transfers
> interruptible would be.

I was only OK with trying to make transfers interruptible in the
branch assuming it was something non-invasive, like a missing QUIT
here and there.

>> I think we need to unblock 7.10 as soon as possible so that 7.11
>> with all the neat sysroot features happens sooner too.  :-)
> 
> Sure, but why not unblock it this way so that 7.10 users can have
> the neat sysroot features, *if and only if* they use GDB in a way
> that didn't make sense in 7.9?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves