Re: Trouble with GDB and specific app on 7.0-CURRENT....

From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele_at_computer.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:47:00 -0500
On 10/07/2007 17:44, Kip Macy wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Eric Schuele <e.schuele_at_computer.org> wrote:
>> On 09/28/2007 00:12, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:58:35PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
>>>> On 09/27/2007 23:29, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:18:01PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
>>>>>> Has anyone seen behavior like this?  What else can I provide that might
>>>>>> help diagnose this?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Are you by any chance using tcsh as your shell?
>>>>>
>>>> heh... Yes, as a matter of fact.  How is that affecting me?  I've always
>>>> used tcsh and not had these troubles.
>>>>
>>> Signal handling in tcsh is broken, and one manifestation of
>>> the problem is the behavior you're seeing with gdb.  I've
>>> repeatedly asked to have the 6.15.0 version of tcsh backed
>>> out of src/ to the previously working 6.14.0 version, but no
>>> one who can affect such a change seems to think a default user
>>> shell with broken signal handling is a problem.  The only
>>> workaround that I've found is "setenv SHELL sh" prior to
>>> executing gdb.
>> Hmm... yeah.. I found the bug report after you mentioned tcsh.  However
>> changing that var has no effect for me.  In fact using sh as my shell
>> makes no difference either.
>>
>> Maybe I should rollback my tcsh and see what happens?
> 
> You need to actually execute a different shell. Changing the variable
> isn't going to help.

I did execute a different shell.  Tried several in fact.

> 
>  -Kip
> 
> 


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Regards,
Eric



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