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For testing a following patch, I wanted a way to send a SIGINT to GDB from a breakpoint condition. And I didn't want to do it from a Python breakpoint or Python function, as I wanted to exercise non-Python code paths. So I thought I'd add a new $_shell internal function, that runs a command under the shell, and returns the exit code. With this, I could write: (gdb) b foo if $_shell("kill -SIGINT $gdb_pid") != 0 || <other condition> I think this is generally useful, hence I'm proposing it here. Here's the new function in action: (gdb) p $_shell("true") $1 = 0 (gdb) p $_shell("false") $2 = 1 (gdb) p $_shell("echo hello") hello $3 = 0 (gdb) p $_shell("foobar") bash: line 1: foobar: command not found $4 = 127 (gdb) help function _shell $_shell - execute a shell command and returns the result. Usage: $_shell (command) Returns the command's exit code: zero on success, non-zero otherwise. (gdb) NEWS and manual changes included. Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Change-Id: I7e36d451ee6b428cbf41fded415ae2d6b4efaa4e