From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9600: 24.0.50; .gdbinit does not run Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:42:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hb401otl.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxds1nz8.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <83d3eo100v.fsf@gnu.org> <7sty7z3gth.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317033814 11028 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2011 10:43:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9600@debbugs.gnu.org, svenjoac@gmx.de To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 12:43:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R88el-0002QV-G0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:43:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R88ek-00012x-TV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R88eg-0000tN-Uj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R88ef-0008R1-L9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R88ef-0008Qx-JY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R88fM-0005gA-0o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:44:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:44:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9600 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9600-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9600.131703379521742 (code B ref 9600); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:44:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9600) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Sep 2011 10:43:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R88eY-0005ec-8I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R88eV-0005eV-V4 for 9600@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R88dn-0003Jp-2h; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:42:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <7sty7z3gth.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:26:18 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:44:04 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:51875 Archived-At: 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/