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Re: RFA: "disconnect" command
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
Daniel> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
>> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>> ...
Daniel> Refresher on this one: the patch adds a "disconnect" commad,
Daniel> and implements it for remote targets. "disconnect" leaves
Daniel> the target stopped, while "detach" usually resumes it.
Daniel> Useful with kgdb, gdbserver, et cetera.
>> Useful indeed. But there is nothing in the names "detach" and
>> "disconnect" that suggests how they differ. Would it be possible
>> to have command names that are suggestive of their action?
Daniel> The last time I proposed this, we went back and forth for a
Daniel> week on names and this was the best we could come up with.
Daniel> Have you got a better suggestion?
Nothing really promising. But how about doing this with an (optional)
argument on the "detach" command, e.g., "detach stop" and "detach go"
with the latter being the default?
paul