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

[Eric Schuele]

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?

-- 
Regards,
Eric


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