From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, simon.marchi@ericsson.com,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2twsszn8c.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834mks3e5r.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:11:12 +0300")
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-25 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-24 18:20 Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24 18:34 ` Simon Marchi
2015-07-24 19:10 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 19:29 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 20:09 ` Simon Marchi
2015-07-24 20:20 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-25 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-25 16:30 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-25 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-25 17:03 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-25 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-25 23:46 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24 20:29 ` Paul_Koning
2015-07-24 20:38 ` Simon Marchi
2015-07-24 20:51 ` Paul_Koning
2015-07-24 21:36 ` Matt Rice
2015-07-25 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87y4i547lk.fsf@redhat.com>
2015-07-25 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 20:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-07-25 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-25 7:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-07-25 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 19:54 ` Simon Marchi
2015-07-24 18:43 ` Luis Machado
2015-07-24 19:08 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-24 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-24 20:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-26 0:14 ` [PATCH v3] " Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-26 8:05 ` Doug Evans
2015-07-26 17:03 ` Doug Evans
2015-07-26 19:26 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-26 20:48 ` Doug Evans
2015-07-28 23:11 ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-29 19:21 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-26 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-28 19:58 ` [PATCH] Warn the user when $SHELL is invalid Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-07-28 23:12 ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-29 19:22 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
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