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Re: PR13901

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:58:54 +0200
Subject: Re: PR13901
References: <20120330134210.GA7869@bromo.med.uc.edu> <AA980E80-C63F-490E-B804-73B1CC9047ED@adacore.com> <14D51CD4-4990-4B11-952C-64EB8F791306@adacore.com> <4F79AFF4.9000704@redhat.com> <54AC9EED-A577-41CA-B09D-3ED879877D0C@adacore.com> <4F79B4CB.4090903@redhat.com>

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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