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'insecure directories' warning

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From: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh workers mailing list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 'insecure directories' warning
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:17:23 +0100
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Reply-to: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>

A month ago, Bart wrote:
> The other problem is that when I answer "y" to the question "there are
> insecure directories -- proceed?" I expected that to mean that it
> would USE those directories, not ignore them.  If it's going to skip
> those directories anyway, why bother to ask the question?  Giving me a
> choice between no directories and half of them is no choice at all; it
> just leaves me with a partly-working completion system, which is
> baffling.

Nothing seems to have been done about this.  Also, it would be nice if
the user gets told which directories are insecure, otherwise he
doesn't stand much of a chance of fixing them.

Maybe I should file a SF bug report?

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