From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 02:24:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ea42f52-e3e4-2cc0-19fa-e96d02fdb4fe@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <213ab8c4-dd38-19ef-bd8a-87855238df1a@cs.ucla.edu>
On 18.05.2020 02:16, Paul Eggert wrote:
> That would run afoul of the whole idea of clearing the string in the first
> place, which was to avoid having one's password lying around in memory for a bad
> actor to grab it.
OK, okay. I see the full design now.
Sorry for the false alarm.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-17 23:24 UTC|newest]
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2020-05-17 11:22 ` master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 17:01 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 11:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 17:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 21:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 21:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 23:16 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 23:24 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2020-05-18 7:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-18 22:49 ` Paul Eggert
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