From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1132 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2012 06:50:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 1114 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2012 06:50:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_NIX_SPAM,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il (HELO mtaout23.012.net.il) (80.179.55.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:49:53 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MAW00E007YOGX00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:49:51 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MAW00EPZ8B36MG0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:49:51 +0200 (IST) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:50:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary In-reply-to: <20120925063518.GA3010@adacore.com> To: Joel Brobecker Cc: khooyp@cs.umd.edu, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <838vbyiol1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120924145910.GE4146@adacore.com> <2878953E-B698-43F3-989A-A551D96BAB62@cs.umd.edu> <20120924152641.GF4146@adacore.com> <9F52A338-A158-44DC-90C1-F46503859613@cs.umd.edu> <285502C6-1395-4049-9D55-031EDA3AD06D@cs.umd.edu> <83haqni93s.fsf@gnu.org> <20120924204931.GA4265@adacore.com> <83d31bi0ya.fsf@gnu.org> <20120924213457.GA9671@adacore.com> <83boguipj9.fsf@gnu.org> <20120925063518.GA3010@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2012-09/txt/msg00537.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:35:18 +0200 > From: Joel Brobecker > Cc: khooyp@cs.umd.edu, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, > gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > > I my opinion, it opens a very obvious window for running something > > > the user didn't mean to run. > > > > I don't see how. > > There are Python files in inside one of its directories, and they can > get executed when starting up. Take a look at the __init__.py files in > gdb/python/lib/gdb and gdb/python/lib/gdb/command, for instance. That's not what I meant. I don't see how using absolute file names is safer than using file names computed from relative file names.