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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAD6193.7080905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120511181650.GC21798@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On 05/11/2012 07:16 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> Hi Pedro,
> 
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 20:13:18 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 05/09/2012 04:46 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>
>>> +Setting this variable to @file{/} disables this security protection,
>>
>> I wonder if creeping in this unixysm is a sign of an interface
>> that could be better.  I mean, it doesn't make so much sense
>> if you think of Windows, for example.
> 
> I just checked it in, sorry.


Sorry, I'm way behind on the list.

> I was thinking about using "set auto-load safe-path :" where ":" is the path

> separator but this would be "set auto-load safe-path ;" on MS-Windows.


This actually sounds like a good idea to me.  It should already be working?
So we'd only need to remove the '/' special case, and tweak the docs to mention
that.

> I just find "/" to be a magic string, which just coincidentally matches root
> on UNIX systems.
> 
> Sure I can commit some change if you have a better idea.-- 


-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 15:47 Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-09 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 18:17   ` [obv doc] Fix too wide @smallexample [Re: [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path] Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-09 18:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 18:59   ` [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-09 20:08     ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-11 16:46       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 17:29         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-11 18:15       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 18:13 ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-11 18:17   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 18:59     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2012-05-11 19:05       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 19:15         ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-11 19:34           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 20:28             ` [patch] Cosmetic fix 'show auto-load safe-path' for ":" [Re: [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path] Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-18 17:45               ` [commit] [patch] Cosmetic fix 'show auto-load safe-path' for ":" Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 18:19   ` [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path Joel Brobecker
2012-05-11 18:30     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-11 19:38       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-11 19:54         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-14 14:50           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-14 14:57             ` Jan Kratochvil

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