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

[Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 8:31 AM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I sent an updated version of the patch that limits files to *.gdb and
any other supported scripting languages (so .py/.scm right now)

Christian