Re: Weird x86 Linux/GNU crashes

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>]

David Miller writes:
> GDB exec's a shell to setup your environment properly then execute the
> program to be debugged.  In this way GDB's environemnt doesn't need
> to be altered among other things.

This "feature" of gdb has caused me nothing but pain over the years; no
other program thinks it needs to "setup your environment properly" rather
than just use the environment as is.  In almost every case where I have
trouble, the environment *was* set up properly before GDB destroyed it by
exec-ing a shell.  Life tends to be worse for csh/tcsh users, but bash
users can also be messed up.

Unfortunately, gdb's developers like it this way, so the rest of us just
have to work around the damage.