[RFA/RFC] Problem with '!' escaping with zsh/bash/ksh

[Andrew Cagney]

> Andrew,
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:29:51PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> Joel, testcase?
>> 
>> I was going to suggest gdb.base/args.exp but someone's already added that.
>> Consider an addition to that existing test case pre-approved (and any 
>> other evil combinations you come up with).
> 
> 
> Coming back to this message, I am not sure I understand what you were
> suggesting, do you remember? As far as I can tell, args.exp verifies
> that all arguments are correctly passed to the inferior.
> 
> In our case, the '!' character was escaped in the executable name, but
> not in the args (ie the args were left alone). So adding an extra test
> for arguments containing '!' is fine, but not relevant to the issue at
> hand.

Ah!

> At this point, I am considering the addition of a new test case, which
> would basically:
> 
>   - compile args.c
>   - copy args to bang!
>   - gdb bang!
>   - run
> 
> The problem is that this test should work fine on Unix machines
> but I am guessing that this won't work so well on Windows boxes for
> instance.

If it's found to not work then it can be disabled on that system.

> What do you think?

Yep, sounds good.

Andrew