#8248: GHCi should not fail to honour ghci.conf or .ghci if group writable -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: afcowie | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: GHC | Difficulty: Unknown rejects valid program | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: #9324 Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by mboes): This check used to make GHCi way too fussy, but I'm quite happy with the current compromise (check is ignored when providing -ghci-script explicitly, or when user is root). Perhaps just improve the warning message to explain to the user exactly what is making GHCi unhappy and how to fix it? A umask of 002 only affects the default permissions, but it's easy enough for the user to chmod to something known to be safe. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8248#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler