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Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>, simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:18:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure GDB uses a valid shell when starting the inferior and to perform the "shell" command
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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?
Andreas.
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