From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2823 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2006 21:50:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 2811 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Feb 2006 21:50:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cgf.cx (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:50:39 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id F10AF13C0F8; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:50:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:50:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror Message-ID: <20060205215036.GE4718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200602032325.k13NPJ6g028001@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060203233935.GA13238@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060204032730.GB9890@nevyn.them.org> <200602041435.k14EZ6NK016329@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060205001503.GB8728@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205193440.GB4718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205202222.GB5574@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060205202222.GB5574@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:22:22PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > The shell is needed for the "shell" command. The shell is not used for >> > running programs. >> >> The latter is unlike on Posix platforms, right? > >That is an implementation artifact that, IMO, we desperately need to >move away from. It's a continual source of trouble from e.g. >unexpected variable settings in shell initialization files, and it's >an aggravating (to me) external dependency for GDB. I did try to implement this artifact in Cygwin once but I never got it right. Isn't the shell used to allow redirection and shell-like quoting from the gdb command-line? Lack of redirection, at least, is an occasional complaint about gdb-under-cygwin. cgf