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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:11:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
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To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,  simon.marchi@ericsson.com,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:18:08 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Since the number of valid shells is much smaller than the number of
> > non-shell programs, isn't it better to have a database of known shells
> > than to have a database of non-shells people could be expected to set
> > SHELL to?
> 
> This database will be of infinite size.  Why should it be invalid to set
> SHELL=/foo/bar if that's my self-compiled super-duper shell?

The same goes for non-shells as well.