[Fwd: Bug#94739: ./.ghci -- isn't it dangerous?]

[Simon Marlow]

> In local.glasgow-haskell-bugs, you wrote:
> >fstat() (this is one reason why using access() is generally
> >discouraged).  Using fstat() isn't particularly convenient 
> from Haskell
> >- there's Posix.getFdStatus, but we'd have to use the Posix openFile
> >interface and fdToHandle.  Alternatively we also can check 
> ownership of
> >the directory.
> 
> And the ownership of .., and ../.. and ...

good point.  Ok, I'm just going to disable reading ./.ghci altogether
until we have a safe way to deal with this.  I'll add something to the
user's guide describing how to re-enable it via ~/.ghci.

Cheers,	
	Simon