[GHC] #8248: GHCi should not fail to honour ghci.conf or .ghci if group writable

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#8248: GHCi should not fail to honour ghci.conf or .ghci if group writable
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              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:
              Blocking:              |
Differential Revisions:              |
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Changes (by thomie):

 * cc: hvr (added)


Comment:

 Previous discussion:
 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/1690
 https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-December/087078.html

 I'm not sure what to do. You mention "when a new user is created there is
 also simultaneously a group created with the same name". Isn't it possible
 for other users to also be a member of that group (and even that the user
 owner isn't: user andrew doesn't need to be a member of group andrew)?

 Note: file permissions of `~/.pythonrc.py` are not checked at all.

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