Re: [patch+7.5] auto-load: User conveniences suggested by Doug Evans

Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-24T15:19:21Z

> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:46:27 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>
> 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.

Why wouldn't they? A Windows port is available.

> How about something like:
>
> For more information about this security protection see the
> "Auto-loading safe path" section in the GDB manual.
>
> ?

If they don't have 'info', how will they read the manual?