Re: [PATCH] Use multi-arch'd START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED on Alpha target

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:17:30PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Silly question.... are there any (supported?  working?) uses for this
> > besides globbing and backtick interpolation?  I think there aren't, and
> > I think it would simplify GDB to just have a function which called
> > glob() and invoked subshells for ``.  It's a little tricky, but not
> > very.  We'd lose access to things like shell-specific globbing tricks,
> > but I think that's a worthwhile price to pay.
> 
> I'm not so sure.  Sometimes getting the exact behavior of a specific
> shell might be important.  Also, might this functionality be used
> for piping and I/O redirection?

Oh, I believe you're right.  Probably not a viable idea then.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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