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Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Cc: sergiodj at redhat dot com, simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:11:12 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> 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.