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Re: PR13901

On 04/02/2012 05:22 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> We can't make GDB fully compatible in all cases with what it can do today
>> if we skip the shell completely.  E.g., with "set args $(foo)", "$(foo)" is
>> expanded by the shell, and what that means is up to the user's shell.
> 
> You can handle that by calling the shell only for expanding the
> arguments.


True, but with that and redirection syntax being also shell
specific, I'm not sure what would be the point compared to what
we've always done.

-- 
Pedro Alves
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