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Hi,=20

I'm working on a project that needs to run as root and was wondering if the=
re is a way to run gdb as root from emacs. Simply trying 'M-x gdb' and then=
 'sudo gdb ...' does not seem to work. While googling, I found that you can=
 use tramp to run certain commands as root (https://groups.google.com/forum=
/#!topic/gnu.emacs.help/fXxnXc3v-pM), so based on that I tried 'M-:' and th=
en something like this:=20

(with-temp-buffer
  (cd "/sudo::/")
  (shell-command "gdb -q"))

This doesn't seem to work interactively, however - I get a buffer that simp=
ly has "(gdb) quit" as the output and then there are some weird characters =
in the minibuffer.=20

What would be a workable approach to achieve this? I'm using emacs24 on Ubu=
ntu 16.04 (though I don't mind upgrading if that's what it takes).=20

Thanks,
Stefan.