Asynchronouse progress reporting from GDB Server to gdb using Remote Serial Protocol

Hi,

  We have a GDB Server which manages connections to embedded
targets. We
have a monitor command for doing a lengthy operation on the
target device.
We want to report the status of this lengthy operation back
to gdb
periodically. Is there any support for this in GDB Remote
Serial Protocol? 

Thanks,
Jiju George

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:52:56PM +0100, Jiju George T
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   We have a GDB Server which manages connections to
embedded targets. We
> have a monitor command for doing a lengthy operation on
the target device.
> We want to report the status of this lengthy operation
back to gdb
> periodically. Is there any support for this in GDB
Remote Serial Protocol? 

Not yet.  But Jim Blandy drafted a proposal for progress
reporting
last year, which I hope we will implement eventually.  I
don't think
it was posted.

For monitor commands, you could just send back an O packet
with an
informative message periodically.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery