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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: David Bremner <bremner-dated-1252800134.2fccb3@pivot.cs.unb.ca>,
	4291@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial of service
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r55qrp66.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r55vi1nf.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:18:12 +0200")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> I think the idea is that if you view the same pdf N times in Emacs, the
>> disk space won't increase monotonically (Emacs doesn't delete any of
>> those files AFAIK).
>
> If they aren't deleted, then using a single directory per UID seems like
> a good choice.  Perhaps the right fix here is to make the error message
> better? 

I've now done this.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-16 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-30  0:02 bug#4291: 23.1; doc-view-mode temporary directory vulnerable to denial of service David Bremner
2009-08-31  1:42 ` Glenn Morris
2009-08-31 14:55   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:15     ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-12 21:18     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 21:44       ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-12 21:46         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 22:16           ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 22:18             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-16 19:38               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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