From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make STARTUP_WITH_SHELL a runtime toggle -- add new "set/show startup-with-shell" option.
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023133807.GA12087@blade.nx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382532024-28890-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves wrote:
> Occasionaly we hear about people having problems with GDB not being
> able to start programs (with "run"/"start"). GDB spawns a shell to
> start the program, and most often, it'll be the case that the problem
> is actually with the user's shell setup.
>
> GDB has code to disable the use of the shell to start programs.
> That's the STARTUP_WITH_SHELL macro that native targets could set to 0
> in their nm.h file (though no target actually uses it nowadays).
>
> This patch makes that setting a run-time knob instead. This will be
> useful to quickly diagnose such shell issues, and might also come in
> handy at other times (such as when debugging the shell itself, if you
> don't have a different shell handy).
>
> Comments? Are the docs OK?
It's a good idea. And the docs seem fine to me.
Cheers,
Gary
--
http://gbenson.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-23 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 12:40 Pedro Alves
2013-10-23 13:38 ` Gary Benson [this message]
2013-10-23 13:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-23 14:49 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-25 11:11 ` [PATCH] [DOC] shell startup files, clarifications and fixes. (was: Re: [PATCH] Make STARTUP_WITH_SHELL a runtime toggle -- add new "set/show startup-with-shell" option.) Pedro Alves
2013-11-05 17:56 ` [PATCH] [DOC] shell startup files, clarifications and fixes Pedro Alves
2013-11-05 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-06 12:30 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-23 15:38 ` [PATCH] Make STARTUP_WITH_SHELL a runtime toggle -- add new "set/show startup-with-shell" option Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-24 15:17 ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-08 21:21 ` Thomas Schwinge
2014-01-09 12:10 ` Pedro Alves
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