From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85451 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2015 20:09:45 -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 85439 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2015 20:09:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: usevmg20.ericsson.net Received: from usevmg20.ericsson.net (HELO usevmg20.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:09:43 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC003.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.81]) by usevmg20.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id B7.1E.12958.F7F32B55; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:37:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [142.133.110.144] (147.117.188.8) by smtp-am.internal.ericsson.com (147.117.188.83) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.210.2; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: <55B29B84.5000707@ericsson.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:09:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii , Sergio Durigan Junior CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command References: <1437761993-18758-1-git-send-email-sergiodj@redhat.com> <55B2850D.6030306@ericsson.com> <87k2tp5q3g.fsf@redhat.com> <838ua52wmp.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv4d5p8l.fsf@redhat.com> <837fpp2uz5.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <837fpp2uz5.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00724.txt.bz2 On 15-07-24 03:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't think there are so many shells out there that we run a real > risk of forgetting them. Even though you can try to list all known shells, they won't necessarily be in the same location. For example, the servers I work on at work have an old version of everything, so I use my own version of bash. SHELL won't be /bin/bash but /home//local/bin/bash. gdb wouldn't recognize it as a valid shell. > And even if we do, there's plenty of time > till the next release to hear from those who might be negatively > impacted. I don't think that's true. The number of users who go build and use gdb from the master branch is probably negligible. If this affects some users, it will most likely be when it gets released in distros (months or years after the actual release, depending on the distro).