dont load .gdbinit if it is world writable

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:08:02PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> attached patch checks to see if the $PWD/.gdbinit file is world writable and 
> if so, warn about this and refuse to load it
> 
> idea being that since you can execute just about anything in it, you dont want 
> random people inserting this in it
> 
> of course, the usefulness of this is marginalized if .gdbinit is owned by a 
> diff user and they just make it world readable but not world writable ... but 
> i dont think a cwdbuf.st_uid == getuid() would be accepted ?

You can find my more thorough patch for this in the archives, from
late May 2006.  There was some feedback (to be honest I completely
don't remember what it was) and I never got back to it.  I think Red
Hat has a different patch for it in their RPMS, too.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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