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Re: Debian: bash --debugger doesn't start the debugger

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From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject Re: Debian: bash --debugger doesn't start the debugger
Date Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:10:10 -0400
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On 10/12/15 4:16 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> My investigations indicate that it is still true that as per Debian bug
> report (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403304)
> --debugger does NOT start the debugger UNLESS the debugged script has a $1.

We discussed this in a thread on bug-bash back in April:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-04/msg00183.html

This discussion references an earlier bug report concerning whether the
--debugger option should produce an error if the bashdb script is not
installed.  There is also an issue with bashdb misbehaving when run in
an interactive shell; that was the reason for the check of $1 in the
first place.

Part of that thread explains why a check of $0 is not correct: since $0
is always set, a check for it has no effect.

The final change that solves both problems went into the bash development
branch in early May, and will be in bash-4.4.

-- 
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Re: Debian: bash --debugger doesn't start the debugger Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-13 09:10 -0400

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