From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 120312 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2017 15:46:19 -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 120301 invoked by uid 89); 29 Sep 2017 15:46:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=joe, H*M:7118 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 ESMTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:46:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4701A820E9; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:46:17 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 4701A820E9 Authentication-Results: ext-mx02.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx02.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=palves@redhat.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3532F17D15; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] Implement "set cwd" command on GDB To: Eli Zaretskii References: <20170912042325.14927-1-sergiodj@redhat.com> <20170921225926.23132-1-sergiodj@redhat.com> <20170921225926.23132-5-sergiodj@redhat.com> <83poajcg9a.fsf@gnu.org> <878th64nqk.fsf@redhat.com> <838th6d0l1.fsf@gnu.org> <831smycyia.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvzuzdgv.fsf@redhat.com> <9fd4d5eb-0e17-f2e4-97e0-5623c16d82b6@redhat.com> <83r2uyarha.fsf@gnu.org> <93153718-e47d-754b-08b6-60f37cf2ba39@redhat.com> <83y3ox7c8a.fsf@gnu.org> Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83y3ox7c8a.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00911.txt.bz2 On 09/29/2017 04:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > But that's an illusory advantage, isn't it? I don't think it is. > Because we then keep "~", > but it expands to something different for every target, and the user > has no way of knowing what that will do on another target. If the user types "~" then surely they want the home directory, whatever it is on the machine. That's the point of "~" existing, IMO. > Moreover, > the user might not even want to have a different expansion for each > target. If the user does not want a different expansion for each target then they can simply specify an expanded path like "/home/joe" or whatever without the "~". Thanks, Pedro Alves