From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7123 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2002 22:00:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6567 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2002 21:59:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2002 21:59:21 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 170rGx-00075m-00; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:59:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:00:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Snyder Cc: Andrew Cagney , thorpej@wasabisystems.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use multi-arch'd START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED on Alpha target Message-ID: <20020425175927.A27246@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Snyder , Andrew Cagney , thorpej@wasabisystems.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020421181544.S1627@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <3CC74887.2070401@cygnus.com> <20020425160400.A19216@nevyn.them.org> <3CC8726A.D93DA309@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC8726A.D93DA309@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01046.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:17:30PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Silly question.... are there any (supported? working?) uses for this > > besides globbing and backtick interpolation? I think there aren't, and > > I think it would simplify GDB to just have a function which called > > glob() and invoked subshells for ``. It's a little tricky, but not > > very. We'd lose access to things like shell-specific globbing tricks, > > but I think that's a worthwhile price to pay. > > I'm not so sure. Sometimes getting the exact behavior of a specific > shell might be important. Also, might this functionality be used > for piping and I/O redirection? Oh, I believe you're right. Probably not a viable idea then. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer