From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15944 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2005 04:26:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15893 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Jun 2005 04:26:13 -0000 Received: from c-66-30-17-189.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:26:13 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 62C4113C097; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:26:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:26:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: Check permissions of .gdbinit files Message-ID: <20050602042610.GA21799@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20050530185201.GA29332@nevyn.them.org> <20050530224200.GB2727@nevyn.them.org> <20050531175433.GA7386@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050531222233.GF9864@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:51:40AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:22:33 -0400 >> From: Christopher Faylor >> >> >>>In any case, the other issue still remains: if they do have getuid and >> >>>S_IWOTH, non-readonly files will be reported world-writable. So I'd >> >>>suggest to either disable this feature entirely on Windows platforms, >> >>>or write a Windows specific code that uses the Win32 API to get file >> >>>ownership (GetSecurityInfo or some such). >> >> >> >>Did anyone read Ulrich Drepper's recent rant about this kind of thing? >> >>:-) >> > >> >I don't think I've read it. I'd appreciate a URL. >> >> http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/7326.html > >Thanks. > >This isn't new to me: I remember sparring with Ulrich about these >issues as far as 7 years ago (which didn't prevent us from drinking >beer together when we met ;-). Oh, yes. I've had a similar (probably more abbreviated) discussion with him as well. In an odd sort of way, I sort of agree with him. cgf