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some gdbs ignore a world-writable .gdbinit

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 9600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9600: 24.0.50; .gdbinit does not run
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:04:06 +0300

> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:34:20 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> 
> I built Emacs in place.  GDB did not run .gdbinit because the file is
> writable.  Once I saw that, I knew how to work around it, but it
> should not be necessary for everyone that builds Emacs in place to
> work around it.  It should be fixed in Emacs so the problem does not
> occur.

FWIW, I cannot reproduce this with GDB 7.3, 7.2, or 7.1 and with
today's Emacs trunk.  I couldn't try earlier GDB versions.

What are the exact permissions of your .gdbinit?  Mine are 664 in one
tree and 666 in another; both work.

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