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Re: PR13901
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
> On 04/02/2012 05:22 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> We can't make GDB fully compatible in all cases with what it can do today
>>> if we skip the shell completely. E.g., with "set args $(foo)", "$(foo)" is
>>> expanded by the shell, and what that means is up to the user's shell.
>>
>> You can handle that by calling the shell only for expanding the
>> arguments.
>
>
> True, but with that and redirection syntax being also shell
> specific, I'm not sure what would be the point compared to what
> we've always done.
You can do the expansion in a step that is completely separate from
starting the inferior. But you cannot handle redirections this way.
Andreas.
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