Re: PR13901

Tristan Gingold
2012-04-02T15:08:48Z

On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> 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).

There are a few targets (such as djgpp) that already implement redirections.

Tristan.