http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=936874 Bug ID: 936874 Summary: gdb resolves symbolic links when passing argv[0] Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: fbui@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- It looks like opensuse 13.1 is affected by this bug (opensuse 13.2 is working fine): https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15415 Here's a simple test case: $ rpm -q gdb gdb-7.6.50.20130731-3.1.2.x86_64 $ cat main.c #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include int main(void) { printf("%s\n", program_invocation_short_name); return 0; } $ ls -l total 20 -rwxr-xr-x 1 fbui users 12659 Jul 2 12:24 a.out -rw-r--r-- 1 fbui users 137 Jul 2 12:23 main.c lrwxrwxrwx 1 fbui users 5 Jul 2 12:24 symlink -> a.out $ ./symlink symlink $ gdb --args ./symlink .. Reading symbols from /home/fbui/bug-gdb/a.out...done. (gdb) r a.out [Inferior 1 (process 1947) exited normally] (gdb) Thanks. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.