Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command

Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24T20:20:47Z

On Friday, July 24 2015, Simon Marchi wrote:

> 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/<user>/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).

Yeah, I don't agree with this proposal as well. I will submit a v2
soon, without Eli's proposal, and see what others say. If others also
prefer Eli's idea, we can discuss the details.

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