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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9196@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9196: integer and memory overflow issues (e.g., cut-and-paste crashes Emacs)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:52:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E339C30.9090708@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E332009.3090909@cs.ucla.edu>



Paul Eggert skrev 2011-07-29 23:03:

> Also, it's not really true that I won't be the one that has to take
> the time.  I have been taking the time to maintain and improve these
> checks for months now.  I've found several serious bugs in the
> process, some of which allow remote exploits.  I expect to find more
> bugs, and I'll be happy to help in any future problems that crop up
> in this area.  The goal is to have an Emacs implementation that is robust,
> rather than one that crashes when given input that was thought
> "couldn't happen".

I have no problem with checks that fixes bugs.  But the checks that check for 
more than 2 billion command line arguments or more than 2 billion scroll bars 
or more than 250 million i/o sources simply does not make sense.  It is just 
clutter.

	Jan D.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-30  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29  6:44 bug#9196: integer and memory overflow issues (e.g., cut-and-paste crashes Emacs) Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 10:01 ` Jan Djärv
2011-07-29 16:21   ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 16:49     ` Jan Djärv
2011-07-29 21:03       ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-30  5:52         ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2011-07-30 19:16           ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-31  8:57             ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-05  2:33               ` Paul Eggert
2011-08-05  9:26                 ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-06  1:24                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-08-08 18:01                     ` Jan Djärv
     [not found] ` <handler.9196.B.131192196724343.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2011-08-26 16:38   ` Paul Eggert

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