Re: [PATCH 3/7] gdb/debuginfod: disable pagination during downloads

[Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>]

Hi Tom,

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:33 PM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
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> Aaron> Disable pagination during downloads in order to avoid inconvenient
> Aaron> continue prompts "--Type <RET> for more, q to quit...".
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> I still don't get the rationale for this patch.
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> If the user has paging enabled, then barring some critical reason to
> disable it, it seems like paging should happen.

During debuginfod progress updates, paging prompts sometimes happen
and sometimes don't happen due to conditions internal to gdb that aren't
obvious to the user.  This may be perplexing to the user. IMO it's better
if the prompt behavior is more uniform.

I've also heard from at least one person that they left gdb unsupervised
during a large series of downloads and were annoyed when they returned
to see that the prompt stopped downloading part way through waiting
for input.

However you are right that users already have the option to disable
pagination. They can separately disable debuginfod progress messages
too.  If you'd prefer that we keep the existing pagination behaviour, at
least users have multiple options if they don't like something.

Aaron