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Re: [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4)
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <alves dot ped at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:15:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4)
- References: <4E95DC58.7030805@codesourcery.com> <m3lisedpv0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4ECD3496.1070609@codesourcery.com> <4EF9497B.9020501@earthlink.net> <E1RfQXH-0004RB-1H@fencepost.gnu.org> <4EFA54FF.1080307@earthlink.net> <4F019E45.5010906@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be important to this discussion to consider that in its present form,
> "info os" is more useful in its MI variant, where the frontend queries
> GDB for what tables does the backend expose (with "info os"), and then
> presents them in spreadsheet-like format, all without any hardcoding.
> ?Exposing
> more bits in the GNU/Linux backends serves the purpose of being the
> reference implementation / proof-of-concept.
IWBN to expose such functionality to python without python having to
parse the CLI output (i.e. funnel the xml to python).