From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6614 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2014 16:18:36 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 6577 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2014 16:18:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:18:34 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB4GIWLp005569 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 11:18:32 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB4GIUKR001577; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 11:18:31 -0500 Message-ID: <54808956.9070507@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:18:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Palka , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Append to input history file instead of overwriting it References: <1417226462-11254-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1417226462-11254-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 On 11/29/2014 02:01 AM, Patrick Palka wrote: > This patch makes readline append new history lines to the GDB history > file on exit instead of overwriting the entire history file on exit. > This change allows us to run multiple simultaneous GDB sessions without > having each session overwrite the added history of each other session on > exit. It is particularly helpful when debugging GDB with GDB. > > Does this look OK to commit? Tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Does this mean the history file will keep growing forever, rather than be trimmed by the history size? Thanks, Pedro Alves