From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114426 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2015 20:20:47 -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 114414 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2015 20:20:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:20:46 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B9798E74D; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unused-10-15-17-51.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.17.51]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t6OKKgPj004000 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:20:44 -0400 From: Sergio Durigan Junior To: Simon Marchi Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command 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-URL: http://blog.sergiodj.net Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <55B29B84.5000707@ericsson.com> (Simon Marchi's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:09:40 -0400") Message-ID: <87a8ul5mud.fsf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00726.txt.bz2 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//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. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/