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Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:22:22PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > The shell is needed for the "shell" command.  The shell is not used for
>> > running programs.
>> 
>> The latter is unlike on Posix platforms, right?
>
>That is an implementation artifact that, IMO, we desperately need to
>move away from.  It's a continual source of trouble from e.g.
>unexpected variable settings in shell initialization files, and it's
>an aggravating (to me) external dependency for GDB.

I did try to implement this artifact in Cygwin once but I never got
it right.

Isn't the shell used to allow redirection and shell-like quoting from
the gdb command-line?  Lack of redirection, at least, is an occasional
complaint about gdb-under-cygwin.

cgf
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