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Re: [patch#2 3/6] set auto-load local-gdbinit warn-and-*


On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:33:29 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> And are we *really* sure we want to deprecate them?
> >
> > Looks like we are. ÂFWIW, I would suggest polling at least some of the
> > projects that provide .gdbinit as part of their distribution. ÂEven if
> > there's only one such project (Emacs), its developers should be
> > polled, IMO, before making this move.
> 
> I'd reword that to say that before we hear from some significant
> representative users we should not be sure we're ready.

OK; to restate that .gdbinit loading is not a security part of this patchset.
"set autoload safepath" is.
I also made a mistake stating I will change the default in downstream
(Fedora), it does not need to be done, "safepath" is the part fixing the
security hole, "local-gdbinit" is unrelated.


Thanks,
Jan


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