Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:44:21 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Eric Schuele" <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Trouble with GDB and specific app on 7.0-CURRENT.... Message-ID: <b1fa29170710071544v5fc0a1eer9b35147b2824be3e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46FC90EC.4060808@computer.org> References: <46FC8079.6030304@computer.org> <20070928042939.GA34316@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <46FC89FB.2070506@computer.org> <20070928051252.GA34607@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <46FC90EC.4060808@computer.org>
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On 9/27/07, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@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
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