-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/9/10 02:01 , Tony Morris wrote:
I teach haskell quite a lot. I recommend using .ghci files in projects. Today I received complaints about the fact that ghci will reject .ghci if it is group-writeable. I didn't offer an opinion on the matter. I am wondering if these complaints have legitimate grounds i.e. maybe you want to have group write on that file for some reason.
Linux likes to do the group-write thing (this derives from an early Debian decision that uids were obsolete and everything should use the gid as the uid; basically, the wrong solution to file ACLs). Given their decision and its near ubiquity in the Linux world these days, I suspect ghc's going to be on the wrong end of the battle. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0EHvoACgkQIn7hlCsL25WM3ACeMMSJAcyBEM0KRkK71nhpCiOx pRMAn01M0F2AJlkm+IxIeMrnIral/vwS =DcFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----