Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default

Tom Tromey
2012-01-17T21:13:58Z

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> If those other reasons are safety, then this is not the way to do it.
Eli> Legitimate uses of .gdbinit of many should not be precluded on behalf
Eli> of potential wrong-doing of the few. If safety is our concern, we
Eli> should make unsafe uses harder or impossible without hurting safe
Eli> uses.

The problem is that nobody has thought of a way to do this; Jan sent a
message in this thread that concisely explains the two cases that
conflict. I, and I assume others in this thread, am proceeding from the
basis that there is no ideal solution and so we must choose between
lesser approaches.

Tom