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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Cc: khooyp at cs dot umd dot edu, jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:35:18 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary
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>

> > 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.

-- 
Joel

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