From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69195 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2017 14:53:48 -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 69179 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2017 14:53:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:53:47 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drmZK-0006OI-4u for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:53:46 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drmZC-0006LJ-Q5; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:53:34 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1983 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1drmZC-0005MS-4q; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:53:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:53:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83h8w8q87m.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Sergio Durigan Junior CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com In-reply-to: <20170912042325.14927-4-sergiodj@redhat.com> (message from Sergio Durigan Junior on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:23:24 -0400) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Introduce gdb_chdir Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20170912042325.14927-1-sergiodj@redhat.com> <20170912042325.14927-4-sergiodj@redhat.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 > From: Sergio Durigan Junior > Cc: Pedro Alves , Sergio Durigan Junior > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:23:24 -0400 > > In order to be able to change the inferior's directory before its > execution, it is necessary to perform a tilde expansion of the > directory provided by the user and then chdir into the resulting dir. > This is what gdb_chdir does. > > Unfortunately it is not possible to use "tilde_expand" from readline > because this is common code and gdbserver doesn't use readline. For > that reason I decided to go with "glob" and its GNU extension, > GLOB_TILDE. With the import of the "glob" module from gnulib, this is > a no-brainer. Why not simply 'getenv("HOME")'?