Re: Hack to get filename completion for the mod command

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----- "Bob Montgomery" <bob.montgomery@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The mod command won't do filename completion.
> Sometimes I set up a big ugly directory path for mod -S by starting with
> the dir command, using its filename completion to get the modules
> directory, and then command-line editing the dir command into a mod -S
> command before executing it.  Ahem.
> 
> This hacky patch allows crash to tell gdb that "mod" is a command that
> should get filename completion.  It's pretty un-smart filename
> completion, e.g. doesn't know that sometimes it should be selecting from
> a list of modules instead of filenames, etc.  And it messes with the
> separation of crash and gdb.  
> 
> But mod -S <tab><tab> seems to work.

By any chance, does the "non-standard module directory option" that went
into 4.0-8.10 work for you, i.e., letting the bash command line do the
command line completion work:

  # crash vmlinux [vmcore] --mod <directory>

Then "mod -S" works by searching from the specified <directory> on down.

  http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html#4_0_8_10
 
> It does change the behavior of "crash> gdb help mod" and "crash> gdb
> mod".  

Huh?

Dave

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