GDB "Can't exec" Problem

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <3440016 at hparc0.HP.COM> linas at hparc0.HP.COM (Linas Petras) writes:
>I am trying to run GDB-3.5 on SCO unix 3.2.2 and ever time I try and run a
>test program ("hello world" type) I get an error message back from GDB 
>saying that permission is denied to exec /bin/sh.  

The solution is to have a readable copy of the shell somewhere around.  I
copied /bin/sh to /usr/local/lib/gsh, and told gdb to use that instead of
/bin/sh.  gdb works just fine now.

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