[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D119831: [lldb] Add support for a "global" lldbinit file

Thu Feb 17 08:53:17 PST 2022

labath added a comment.

In D119831#3329894 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D119831#3329894>, @JDevlieghere wrote:

> Specifying a directory instead of a file makes sense. Why omit the leading dot though? I can think of a few reasons (you can specify a subdir unlike home, it's probably not something the user modifies unlike the one in home and cwd), but still it seems needlessly confusing to me.

I did it mainly because (I believe) that is common practice (so, *not* doing it could be confusing), and I believe the reason is precisely the one you mention -- as it's going to be in a global directory, you don't need it to be hidden (quite the opposite).

If we take bash as an example, here are some of the files it accesses:
`~/.terminfo` vs `/etc/terminfo` (a directory) -- done through the terminfo library, so which is used by lldb as well
`~/.bashrc` vs `/etc/bash/bashrc`
`~/.dir_colors` vs `/etc/DIR_COLORS` -- this isn't hardcoded in bash, but accessed from /etc/bash/bashrc
`~/.inputrc` vs `/etc/inputrc`
`~/.bash_profile` vs `/etc/profile`

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