From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:51:45 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Improve documentation of which shell is used by GDB's shell commands
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edf92af0fbc064243069578353ff569462c3df5b;p=binutils-gdb.git

Improve documentation of which shell is used by GDB's shell commands

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

2020-06-26  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

	* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): More accurate description of use
	of $SHELL.  Reported by Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 4b1a4c01f9f..c5919345082 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-06-26  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* gdb.texinfo (Shell Commands): More accurate description of use
+	of $SHELL.  Reported by Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>.
+
 2020-06-23  Andrew Burgess  <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
 
 	* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document new 'maint print
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 7f8c77a77f2..fbe9f850af4 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -1451,9 +1451,10 @@ just use the @code{shell} command.
 @itemx !@var{command-string}
 Invoke a standard shell to execute @var{command-string}.
 Note that no space is needed between @code{!} and @var{command-string}.
-If it exists, the environment variable @code{SHELL} determines which
-shell to run.  Otherwise @value{GDBN} uses the default shell
-(@file{/bin/sh} on Unix systems, @file{COMMAND.COM} on MS-DOS, etc.).
+On GNU and Unix systems, the environment variable @code{SHELL}, if it
+exists, determines which shell to run.  Otherwise @value{GDBN} uses
+the default shell (@file{/bin/sh} on GNU and Unix systems,
+@file{cmd.exe} on MS-Windows, @file{COMMAND.COM} on MS-DOS, etc.).
 @end table
 
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