Re: [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] Load gdbinit files from a directory

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 8/25/19 11:23 PM, Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:13 PM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/20/19 11:17 PM, Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches wrote:
>>> This patch series is some refactoring and then a patch to load gdbinit
>>> files from a directory, instead of only allowing a single file.
>>>
>>> Fedora ships a system gdbinit file that does something similar; this
>>> does this by default and also works if Python is disabled.
>>
>> Note that Fedora won't be able to replace the current mechanism with
>> this, because it also loads Python files from the dir:
> 
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> I've looked at the code more closely now, and it already uses the
> "source" command for loading the system gdbinit file(s). So, Fedora
> should be able to use it, I think?

Are you sourcing every file in the directory irrespective of
filename / filename extension?  Not sure that's a good idea.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves