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

Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-25T07:11:16Z

> 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.