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some gdbs ignore a world-writable .gdbinit

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, 9600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, svenjoac <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#9600: 24.0.50; .gdbinit does not run
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:42:27 -0400

    I tested with Debian testing's gdb "7.3-debian". A gdbinit file writable
    by me was fine, a world-writable gdbinit was rejected with

      warning: not using untrusted file ".gdbinit"

    This seems entirely reasonable to me [1]. No need to build another gdb.
    Just use a sensible umask when checking Emacs out from the repository.

When the executable is world-writable, there is no reason at all why
GDB should care whether .gdbinit is world-writable.

But we can't implement that here.

    Just use a sensible umask when checking Emacs out from the repository.

I think my choice of umask is totally sensible.  Where did you get
the idea it is not?


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