Extending GDB to provide console over telnet

[Grigory Tolstolytkin]

Hi,

On 09/29/2011 04:16 PM, Kevin Pouget wrote:
> the idea sounds interesting, there is just one point I'm not sure to
> understand exactly in your email: which interface do you want to
> provide to the remote user: command-line (CLI) or MI?
>
It's CLI. I think it is more user-friendly rather than MI.
> from my point of view, the CLI would be very convenient, it would
> allow the use of Eclipse to navigate the source code (instead of
> where/list/up/down), and on the other side control the execution and
> everything else from the CLI, which is just very powerful when you
> know how to use it.
Exactly, it's one of the points.
> Actually, the best situation would be the other way around, control
> GDB 'directly' so that ReadLine history/completion is also available!
> (I don't thing it would work over the network, would it?)
As I know readline doesn't work well with sockets, but tools like rlwrap 
over telnet can be used. It's transparent to user and brings part of 
readline features like history, line editing, etc. Though gdb 
auto-completion is still a question.

> Thanks for bringing up the idea,
>
> Kevin
Regards,
Grigory