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Re: remote_timeout
- To: jtc@redback.com
- Subject: Re: remote_timeout
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:05:23 -0700
- CC: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
From: jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin)
Date: 20 Aug 1999 12:40:55 -0700
Sometime later, presumably at or after the definition was moved from
remote.c to top.c, the value was changed to 20. I would like to find
the rationale for that change. 20 seconds is far beyond most users
tolerance for waiting.
Dawn Perchik seems to have made this change, in mid-1996. It seems to
have been connected with E7000 emulator work, so my guess is that the
box was being typically catatonic, and sometimes needed more than a
few seconds to respond.
Since this is clearly a case of Cygnus making everbody's lives
miserable for the sake of E7000-using customers :-), I'm amenable to
bumping the default down to a more reasonable level. It would be even
more clever to add the default timeout to the target vector, but I'll
leave that as an exercise for the energetic.
Stan