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Re: RFC: Check permissions of .gdbinit files
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:51:40 +0300
- Subject: Re: RFC: Check permissions of .gdbinit files
- References: <20050530185201.GA29332@nevyn.them.org> <u64x08jma.fsf@gnu.org> <20050530224200.GB2727@nevyn.them.org> <uzmuc6j8k.fsf@gnu.org> <20050531175433.GA7386@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <umzqb9kha.fsf@gnu.org> <20050531222233.GF9864@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot 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.