Weird x86 Linux/GNU crashes

[Stan Shebs]

Joe Buck wrote:

>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.
>
Drifting OT I suppose, but I vaguely remember a discussion about adding
an option to choose not to run a subshell at all.  Cygwin has that option
for instance, and I can't imagine it would be that hard to add for Unix
too.  Is there a PR on this?

Stan

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