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What if we had GDB prompt the user to determine if they wanted to read the .gdbinit file in? Then we could add another configuration variable to GDB that allowed it to always read in the files. That way, by default GDB would be more safe, but for the rest of us, it would work the way it always has.
I like this idea, or some variation. A developer working in a less-secure environment can set the variable (env var?) to ask first before doing, while in an environment like Apple where you have a thousand engineers sharing files in all kinds of weird ways, you can set it to "if an intruder gets this far in, .gdbinit is the least of our worries."
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