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[Bug corefiles/15810] gdb 7.3.1/7.5 unlinks and creates .pyc-files in non-user directories
- From: "kdevel at vogtner dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:15:24 +0000
- Subject: [Bug corefiles/15810] gdb 7.3.1/7.5 unlinks and creates .pyc-files in non-user directories
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- References: <bug-15810-4717 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15810
--- Comment #6 from Stefan <kdevel at vogtner dot de> ---
(In reply to Tom Tromey from comment #5)
> >> setenv ("PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE", "1", 1);
>
> Why should gdb in particular do this?
In order to switch off the undesired side effect which may even be a security
issue (i.e. symlink attack, have not checked this yet).
> I think most things linked against libpython do not.
I think most of the things linked against libpython are not debuggers run by
root.
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