On 20/02/2012, at 3:04 PM, Jack Henahan wrote:
What's your setup like that you can't even use gdb in your own directory? That sounds unusual. And you can turn off the warning, either globally or selectively.[3][4]
My setup is Mac OS X 10.6.8, pretty much out of the box, plus a bunch of additional stuff, but nothing removed. The invariable University policy is that *nobody* except a few designated system administrators is allowed to have root access on any machine connected to the University's ethernets. (Apparently nobody has told them about VirtualBox yet, so I can happily root access Solaris, Linux, and OpenBSD on my Macs.) So - there's the root account, - there's an "admin" account just for me, which lets me turn the printer on and install software, but not run DTrace, and - there's my ordinary user account. I can run gdb just fine, it's setting a breakpoint and then trying to run the program that it doesn't like. I have to re-authenticate for this every time I log in.
[3]: http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/29/disable-the-are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-thi...
Thank you. I did not know about that. I have been working around it by deleting the com.apple.quarantine xattr.
[4]: http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/12/disable-application-downloaded-from-the-inter...
Now *that's* annoying. It turns out that the xattr command is *there*, but 'man xattr' is completely silent. There is nothing for it in /usr/share/man/man1 . I had been using my own command to do the equivalent of xattr -d.