#8248: GHCi should not fail to honour ghci.conf or .ghci if group writable -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: afcowie | Owner: whisky Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: Type of failure: GHC rejects | Unknown/Multiple valid program | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #9324 | Differential Revisions: Phab:D805 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * keywords: newcomer => * status: patch => closed * resolution: => wontfix Comment: afcowie: I don't think there is a consensus to remove the current check. Please use #6017 for further discussion. For reference, this feature was introduced 14 years ago, in commit dfbbfedc7e68d3095a37e4359b69eccc27e5398c: {{{ Author: simonmar <unknown> Date: Fri May 4 14:56:53 2001 +0000 [project @ 2001-05-04 14:56:53 by simonmar] - only read ~/.ghci if it is owned by the current user and isn't writable by anyone else. - Only read ./.ghci if both . and ./.ghci are owned by the current user and aren't writable by anyone else. I think this is sufficient: we don't need to check .. and ../.. etc. because "." always refers to the same directory while a process is running. ... }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8248#comment:13 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler