Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/21/06:24:55
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > Why would you need that? AFAIK, -bash is only needed in interactive
> > invocation, to make it a login shell, but should never be necessary
> > (and could be even dangerous) after that.
>
> Because it's the right thing to do(tm)! Because DOZE has no sense of
> logging in, every invocation of the shell must be a log in shell
I still don't get why is it ``the right thing to do''. There should
be only one login shell: the first instance of Bash. Every other
instance that is subsidiary to the first one, should NOT be the login
shell.
> Call frame traceback EIPs:
> 0x0001c6b0 ___djgpp_traceback_exit+48
> 0x0001c792 _raise+94
> 0x0001f403 _abort+27
> 0x00026f22 __put_path2+58
> 0x00026ecd __put_path+13
> 0x0002a40e __chmod+58
> 0x00021ddd _remove+61
> 0x0001b51f _system+699
This indicates that `system' called `remove' with a NULL pointer
instead of a file name. You need to look for a reason for this.
> As far as I could trace it, it's the call to system() that
> crashes. How do I step into system with gdb?
Compile system.c with -g, put it into the library, and have its source
in the same directory where you run the debugger.
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