Re: [PATCH 6/6] Implement proper "startup-with-shell" support on gdbserver

Sergio Durigan Junior
2017-01-05T20:12:15Z

On Wednesday, January 04 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:48:26 -0500
>>
>> > Also, is it possible that a user will want
>> > remote targets to use a shell, while avoiding that for native
>> > debugging, in the same session?
>>
>> Yeah, I thought about that. My first thought was to add a 'set/show
>> remote startup-with-shell' option, but I thought this was going to be
>> too much for the user. Maybe not.
>>
>> With this new setting, we'd have:
>>
>> - startup-with-shell: Used only locally, default on. Instructs GDB to
>> start the inferior using the shell.
>>
>> - remote startup-with-shell: Used only remotely, default on. Instructs
>> gdbserver to start the inferior using the shell.
>>
>> - remote startup-shell: Used only remotely (if remote startup-with-shell
>> is on), default "" (empty). Tells which shell to be used by gdbserver
>> to start the inferior. If empty, use $SHELL.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Makes sense to me, thanks.

Cool, thanks. I'll go ahead and implement this idea, then.

Cheers,

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