From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb/debuginfod: Prevent prompt for continue during downloading.
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:17:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qmtwsx4.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJDtP-S30d5GV_nkk+hzOxrOU7xyvJJ3Dwzs7Nd=eTCFds+-+w@mail.gmail.com> (Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:02:19 -0500")
>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
Aaron> However the on-demand downloading work creates new situations where
Aaron> a large series of downloads might happen outside fetch_inferior_event.
Aaron> For example, "break client.c:50" could download the .debug_line and
Aaron> .debug_line_str of each shared library to search for the filename
Aaron> "client.c". Then it downloads debuginfo for each match, all of which
Aaron> happens outside of fetch_inferior_event.
Aaron> Setting pagination_enabled=false in debuginfod_*_query prevents the
Aaron> prompt durings the downloads but lines_printed keeps increasing.
Aaron> If lines_allowed is exceeded then after the download you get an (IMO)
Aaron> annoying prompt:
I think this is what the user has requested, though.
The pager can easily be disabled, but if we let code work around it,
there's not really any way to ask for it to be enabled again.
Aaron> Adding a count_lines_printed flag gives us another way to fine-tune
Aaron> when the prompt shows up. It keeps prompt behavior around debuginfod
Aaron> output consistent whether or not the inferior is running.
This is an internal distinction but it seems to me that to the user, gdb
output is just gdb output and can't really be differentiated by its
origin.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-13 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-28 4:06 Aaron Merey
2023-01-28 15:01 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-31 2:09 ` Aaron Merey
2023-01-31 14:22 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-31 20:41 ` Aaron Merey
2023-02-08 14:44 ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-11 2:02 ` Aaron Merey
2023-02-13 14:17 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-02-13 20:23 ` Aaron Merey
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