From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10432 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2012 21:13:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 10424 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2012 21:13:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,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; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:13:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0HLDcHV013813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:38 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0HLDboY000394; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:38 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0HLDZqT032150; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:35 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default References: <20120117095552.GA6141@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120117162621.GA3883@host2.jankratochvil.net> <837h0q5i4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20120117175957.GA9415@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83ty3u3uj1.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:14:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83ty3u3uj1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:10:10 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-01/txt/msg00652.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: Eli> If those other reasons are safety, then this is not the way to do it. Eli> Legitimate uses of .gdbinit of many should not be precluded on behalf Eli> of potential wrong-doing of the few. If safety is our concern, we Eli> should make unsafe uses harder or impossible without hurting safe Eli> uses. The problem is that nobody has thought of a way to do this; Jan sent a message in this thread that concisely explains the two cases that conflict. I, and I assume others in this thread, am proceeding from the basis that there is no ideal solution and so we must choose between lesser approaches. Tom