RTEMS monitor commands and the shell

[Chris Johns]

Thomas, Paul and Sebastian, thank you for the feedback.

It seems like it would be nice to have this command controlled somehow and it is
something that should be fixed. I will take a look and see what I can do and
will report back with any issues or a patch.

Again thanks
Chris

On 16/03/2018 18:43, Paul Whitfield wrote:
> We have hit this problem with rtems 4.10.
> I think the monitor commands should be treated the same as the other shell commands. 
> It should be possible to disable via shellconfig.h - by default all are enabled, but that can be disabled. 
> 
> In our application, the monitor 'exit' command was particularly problematic because customers connect to the monitor via telnet then type exit to end the telnet session. 
> The exit command would trigger a fatal error exception, resulting in several bug reports that were 'device restarted for no reason'. :-(
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> Regards
> Paul Whitfield
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> Paul Whitfield
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel [mailto:devel-bounces at rtems.org] On Behalf Of Chris Johns
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> Subject: RTEMS monitor commands and the shell
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The monitor commands are registered automatically in `rtems_shell_init_once()` which means an application has no control over these being present, the command mix and naming, for example there is a `config` command in the monitor.
> 
> I am not sure what to do, if it is removed some applications may break assuming these commands are present. A way to disable the command using shellconfig.h would be nice.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Chris
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