From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5078 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2012 14:59:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 5066 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Apr 2012 14:59:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:59:00 +0000 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3VLxQl4b42z3hhVx; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from linux.local (ppp-93-104-152-142.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.152.142]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3VLxQl2rysz4KK6Y; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id A1C3C1668FB; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:58:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Pedro Alves Cc: Tristan Gingold , Jack Howarth , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PR13901 References: <20120330134210.GA7869@bromo.med.uc.edu> <14D51CD4-4990-4B11-952C-64EB8F791306@adacore.com> <4F79AFF4.9000704@redhat.com> <54AC9EED-A577-41CA-B09D-3ED879877D0C@adacore.com> <4F79B4CB.4090903@redhat.com> X-Yow: Thousands of days of civilians ... have produced a... feeling for the aesthetic modules -- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:59:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4F79B4CB.4090903@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:16:43 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."