From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14668 invoked by alias); 29 May 2015 11:05:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 14588 invoked by uid 89); 29 May 2015 11:05:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 29 May 2015 11:05:12 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C0EBB7A8B; Fri, 29 May 2015 11:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t4TB59vr026214; Fri, 29 May 2015 07:05:10 -0400 Message-ID: <556847E5.7030106@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:05:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Palka , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Read $GDBHISTSIZE instead of $HISTSIZE References: <1432293831-23599-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1432293831-23599-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00712.txt.bz2 On 05/22/2015 12:23 PM, Patrick Palka wrote: > The HISTSIZE environment variable is generally expected to be read by > shells, not by applications. Some distros for example globally export > HISTSIZE in /etc/profile -- with the intention that it only affects > shells -- and by doing so it renders useless GDB's own mechanism for > setting the history size via .gdbinit. Also, annoyances may arise when > HISTSIZE is not interpreted the same way by the shell and by GDB, e.g. > PR gdb/16999. That can always be fixed on a shell-by-shell basis but it > may be impossible to be consistent with the behavior of all shells at > once. Finally it just makes sense to not confound shell environment > variables with application environment variables. This looks good to me. Thanks, Pedro Alves