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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org, markd@soe.ucsc.edu
Subject: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:54:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Or3gf-0008W5-TU@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qjbp8gpuvx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:42 -0400)

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:42 -0400
> Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> A partial solution for the first problem is simple (below).

Note that this partial solution will do nothing on MS-Windows.
(There's currently no infrastructure in Emacs to create _really_
private files and directories on MS-Windows, even on filesystems that
support file security.)





  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31  6:13 bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files Mark Diekhans
2010-09-02  5:38 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-02  6:54   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-09-02  7:05   ` markd
2010-09-02  7:58     ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-02 16:33       ` Mark Diekhans
2010-09-08  0:03         ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-08  8:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 15:48             ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-08 22:48               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09  5:28                 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-09 17:09                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10  3:06                     ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-13 11:44                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-13 15:32                         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-22  1:34                         ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-25 20:21                           ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-26 10:37                             ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-28 17:26                               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-29 13:36                                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-29 13:43                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-29 14:25                                   ` markd
2011-01-12  4:38                           ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-12 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-12 17:56   ` Mark Diekhans
2011-01-12 19:29     ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-12 21:56       ` Mark Diekhans
2011-01-15  2:33         ` Chong Yidong

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