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

Simon Marchi
2015-07-24T20:38:41Z

On 15-07-24 04:25 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
> But if you omit a shell, is the user of that shell blocked from using gdb? That’s not a good failure mode. It seems to me that omitting a non-shell is much more forgiving: all that happens is that you don’t get the friendly error message.
>
> So that says the explicit list should be of non-shells.
>
> paul

With Eli's suggestion, if SHELL is valid but gdb doesn't know about it (e.g.
SHELL=/my/super/duper/shell), it will fall back to using /bin/sh. So no,
the user wouldn't be blocked.