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From: Lancelot SIX via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: sourcewarebugz@kyber.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: check for empty strings in get_standard_cache_dir/get_standard_config_dir
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:04:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f4949bb-3dea-aa52-3a39-a3f9aebe1538@lancelotsix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16b61c65-e8d0-d744-85f0-ca3d79439ca4@efficios.com>


> What's annoying though is that glob won't work with non-existent directories.
> So if I use
>
>    /home/smarchi/my/non/existent/directory
>
> it is accepted, and these directories will be created.  But I set
>
>    ~/my/non/existent/directory
>
> gdb_tilde_expand will fail.  Perhaps it's just a limitation of gdb_tilde_expand,
> and it should be changed to use something else than glob(3) in order to support
> non-existent paths.
>
> Simon

Using glob just to expand the first path component should do the trick 
quite easily.

I’ll have a look into it to update gdb_tilde_expand (unless someone does 
it before me).

Lancelot


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-07 20:57 Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 21:00 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-07 21:14   ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 21:43     ` Lancelot SIX via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 21:53       ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 22:04         ` Lancelot SIX via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-01-07 22:10           ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 23:39         ` Sergio Durigan Junior via Gdb-patches
2021-01-08  9:45       ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-08 11:05     ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-08  9:48 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-08 15:50   ` [PATCH v2] gdb: check for empty strings in, get_standard_cache_dir/get_standard_config_dir Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-08 17:13     ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-08 18:47       ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches

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