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

[Kip Macy]

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.

 -Kip