From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 734 invoked by alias); 11 May 2012 18:59:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 721 invoked by uid 22791); 11 May 2012 18:59:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:59:33 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4BIxX7g032430 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 14:59:33 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4BIxWM4008672; Fri, 11 May 2012 14:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4FAD6193.7080905@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:59:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Provide $ddir substitution for --with-auto-load-safe-path References: <20120509154640.GA12692@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4FAD56BE.7090703@redhat.com> <20120511181650.GC21798@host2.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20120511181650.GC21798@host2.jankratochvil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00433.txt.bz2 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