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

Andreas Schwab
2015-07-25T07:54:23Z

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

No, the set of non-shells is finite, because they will match a line in
/etc/shells.

Andreas.

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