From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9771 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2012 15:17:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 9762 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2012 15:17:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS 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, 24 Aug 2012 15:16:53 +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 q7OFGqwn010710 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:16:53 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7OFGpXj031486; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:16:51 -0400 Message-ID: <50379AE3.6020502@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:17:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans Subject: Re: [patch+7.5] auto-load: User conveniences suggested by Doug Evans References: <20120821144355.GA28426@host2.jankratochvil.net> <5034FED3.9040809@redhat.com> <20120824151237.GA7200@host2.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20120824151237.GA7200@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: 2012-08/txt/msg00727.txt.bz2 On 08/24/2012 04:12 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:46:27 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote: >> On 08/21/2012 03:43 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: >>> +add \"set auto-load safe-path /\" line to \"%s\".\n\ >>> +For more information about this security protection run from the shell: \ >>> +info \"(gdb)Auto-loading safe path\"\n"), >>> + filename_real, homeinit, homeinit); >> >> This may be cryptic, for instance, for Windows users who won't >> have 'info' available in the shell. How about something like: >> >> For more information about this security protection see the >> "Auto-loading safe path" section in the GDB manual. >> >> ? > > In such case I prefer to rather drop the line. It is obvious one can find the > information in GDB Manual. I disagree. The sentence says which section to look for. There are many methods to get at the manual. E.g, a frontend may even have the manual embedded/indexed in its help system. > The goal was to make access to the information easy enough. > > What about printing instead: > > For more information about this security protection see: http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Auto_002dloading-safe-path.html This points at the current/trunk version of GDB's docs, not the version that the user is running. We shouldn't ever assume these urls are stable. > > > Thanks, > Jan -- Pedro Alves