Re: RFC: Check permissions of .gdbinit files

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:22:33 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
> 
> >>>In any case, the other issue still remains: if they do have getuid and
> >>>S_IWOTH, non-readonly files will be reported world-writable.  So I'd
> >>>suggest to either disable this feature entirely on Windows platforms,
> >>>or write a Windows specific code that uses the Win32 API to get file
> >>>ownership (GetSecurityInfo or some such).
> >>
> >>Did anyone read Ulrich Drepper's recent rant about this kind of thing?
> >>:-)
> >
> >I don't think I've read it.  I'd appreciate a URL.
> 
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/7326.html

Thanks.

This isn't new to me: I remember sparring with Ulrich about these
issues as far as 7 years ago (which didn't prevent us from drinking
beer together when we met ;-).

Anyway, I hope you didn't seriously mean to say that I'm such a
minority in this case, because I already said that what I wrote in
this thread can be disregarded at will.