[cdt-debug-dev] Remove timeouts in CDT?

[Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

> IMHO the timeouts should stay.  It's possible for GDB, whether through =
> fault of its own or hardware drivers etc., to get in a state where it =
> hangs but you can't seem to kill it.
> 
> That being said, we find it really hard to pick a good timeout.  When =
> erasing flash and then loading a large amount of code/data into flash, =
> the default timeouts are sometimes not enough.

I'm of the opinion that it is not practical to point to GDB when CDT is
unable to terminate a debug session. This must be fixed in CDT.

Assuming that CDT was changed to always be able to terminate a GDB
session, would you agree that the timeout should be removed?

Hmmm... perhaps there should be a non-configurable timeout for a
terminate request of e.g. 5 seconds, after which CDT would simply
terminate the GDB process.

This is the desired behaviour for embedded applications at least. Does
CDT support letting a plugin enforce the behaviour described above?


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