From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16742 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2011 00:10:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 16686 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2011 00:10:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:09:47 +0000 Received: from [70.170.59.51] (helo=macbook2.local) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1RWGhG-0005V8-B3 for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:09:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4ED81749.8000305@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:10:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: Introduce remote console for CLI interpreter via telnet References: <4EC4ECB5.8090107@mentor.com> <20111201230711.GB2777@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20111201230711.GB2777@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da9402bd15e340ee187bb2d489970b0be7f40350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On 12/1/11 3:07 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Grigory, > > First, thank you for sending the patch. > >> Attached is the patch that introduces telnet service which can >> accept and execute CLI commands from the remote user. > No one commented on the desireability of such a feature. > I'm a bit indifferent, to tell you the truth, and it would > be nice to hear from others. For now, I've only skimmed over > the patch... > Thanks for the feedback! This patch originated as a feature request from users of another (proprietary) debugger that is used with Eclipse; as I understand it, they use it to provide remote access to help someone working with the IDE, to do some kinds of scripting-like setup, and to serve as a general backdoor fixing up situations where the Eclipse->debugger interface messes up. I suspect that some of these users' needs could probably be handled by various Eclipse and/or MI hackery, but as we've nominally had a multi-input architecture for some time, it seemed more general, and dare I say it, even a little more elegant to simply allow command streams to come in from multiple sources. Stan stan@codesourcery.com