Re: RFC: Introduce remote console for CLI interpreter via telnet

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>]

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