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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:02:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:34:39 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If we are renaming the file, why make the change?

Because it is one of the multiple ways GDB is now exploitable and CVEs are
open for it.

Besides it is inconvenient but we do not agree on that part.


Thanks,
Jan