From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Teika Kazura <teika@gmx.com>,
33847@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 10:51:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eabb2cbb-d819-94d3-3076-0fd692a4fe74@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4kovkurs@gentoo.org>
On 8/22/20 12:24 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> These use cases continue to be dubious security-wise (for other
>> programs as well as for Emacs), but if they're popular then this patch
>> should help people avoid shooting themselves in the foot quite so
>> often.
>
> Looks complicated.
Yes. It's complicated partly because it fixes longstanding obscure security bugs
in the /tmp handling code. These bugs should be fixed anyway, regardless of what
we do about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. With some effort I could break it into two patches
but I'd rather not spend the effort - I already have spent more time in this
obscure but security-relevant area than I'd like.
> What about my earlier suggestion to avoid both /tmp and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR,
> but create the socket in a subdir of user-emacs-directory instead?
This would be worse for several reasons: you'd need to disambiguate via
hostname, you'd need to guarantee hostnames are unique, you'd have problems when
NFS is flaky or hanging in your home directory, and you'd need to deal with
socket files that survive OS crashes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-22 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-23 9:48 bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-23 16:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-25 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-25 23:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-26 2:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26 6:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-26 15:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26 18:32 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28 6:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-30 6:47 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-27 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2018-12-27 16:42 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-27 17:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28 6:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-28 6:35 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28 6:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-30 6:44 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-20 17:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-02-10 8:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-02-10 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 11:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-21 21:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22 7:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-22 7:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-08-22 7:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-22 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 17:51 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-08-22 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 21:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-23 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-22 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 17:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-22 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-23 11:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-24 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 7:48 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-24 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 23:31 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-25 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 16:22 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <a0688fd6-9e73-73d8-6138-3280981abcb5@cs.ucla.edu>
2021-07-25 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-25 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 10:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 19:37 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-23 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 18:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-04-27 1:41 ` Teika Kazura
2019-04-27 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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