From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98433 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2015 07:10:52 -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 98423 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2015 07:10:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout20.012.net.il Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:10:50 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NS100C007VSRJ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:10:31 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NS100C5S7XJQM20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:10:31 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:10:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command In-reply-to: <55B29B84.5000707@ericsson.com> To: Simon Marchi Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <8361583e6v.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <55B29B84.5000707@ericsson.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00738.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:09:40 -0400 > From: Simon Marchi > CC: > > 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. I didn't say that, but meant to suggest testing only the basename of the 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). Fine, have it your way, and let's see if that flies. I thought the fact that we've got 2 additional candidates in less than 1 day is evidence that more will follow, but I guess we will see.