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On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>=20
>> 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 argume=
nt 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.
>=20
> It's actually redirections that are problematic case here (argument
> expansions could be implemented completely independent from starting the
> inferior).

There are a few targets (such as djgpp) that already implement redirections.

Tristan.