Re: PR13901

Andreas Schwab
2012-04-02T14:59:15Z

Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> I'd be glad to see STARTUP_WITH_SHELL turned into a run-time option. I think there's
> a PR open for that even. However, we need the shell at least for argument globbing,
> as in, e.g., debugging `ls *', so I don't think we could make it off by default,
> which practically renders it an orthogonal feature.

It's actually redirections that are problematic case here (argument
expansions could be implemented completely independent from starting the
inferior).

Andreas.

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