[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] .gdbinit

[Marc Hoffman]

Rich Felker writes:
 > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:09:01PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
 > > Hi
 > > 
 > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
 > > > Rich Felker wrote:
 > > > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:51:35AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > > >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:57:19PM -0400, Marc Hoffman wrote:
 > > > >>> [ATTACHMENT ~/gdb.p0, text/x-patch]
 > > > >> Hmmmm.
 > > > > 
 > > > > For what it's worth, I find it really annoying when programs include a
 > > > > .gdbinit file. It rarely works with all versions of gdb and results in
 > > > > errors that make gdb unusable until I rm it.. :)
 > > > 
 > > > better put it in the website or in the documentation dir (with also
 > > > maybe some valgrind conf files)
 > > 
 > > seconded
 > 
 > i agree, this is the best of both worlds.
 > btw .gdbinit is actually likely a vuln. i bet you could trick local
 > users into running gdb from a public dir or dir you own without them
 > realizing that it would run script from .gdbinit.... since no one even
 > seems to know it exists.
 > 

Not to be ignorant but whats vuln?

Thanks
Marc