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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
Date: 02 Mar 2002 16:12:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lmdbkwz0.fsf@Janik.cz>

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 06:52, Pavel Janík wrote:
> +  (unless (or (file-symlink-p file)
> +	      (> (or (file-nlinks file) 0) 1))
> +    (save-excursion
> +      (find-file-other-window file)

This won't work.  There is a race condition in between testing whether
or not the file is a symlink, and actually writing the file (which
happens in `save-buffer', far below).

The right way to do this, I think, is to put the score files in the
user's ~/.emacs.d directory.  Does anyone object to expanding the use of
the .emacs.d directory in this way?


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-02 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-01  1:15 many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Colin Walters
2002-03-02 11:52 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-02 21:12   ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-03-02 23:13     ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-03 17:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-03 20:36         ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-04  0:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-04 23:41           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05  2:26             ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 15:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:57                 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 21:58               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:40         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05  4:30           ` Colin Walters
2002-03-05 10:20           ` Andreas Schwab
2002-03-05 15:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:07               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06  4:40               ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06  7:35                 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06 16:59                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-07  2:40                     ` Colin Walters
2002-03-07  6:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-08  9:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08  9:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-10 10:46                     ` Colin Walters
2002-03-11  9:01                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-17 22:08                         ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 20:06                           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 22:36                             ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 23:49                               ` Steve Kemp
2002-03-19  0:31                                 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-19  6:22                                 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-20  5:10                               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-27 23:46                                 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-31  1:24                                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05  7:30                                     ` Colin Walters
2002-04-05 23:41                                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06 16:59                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-06 19:05                   ` Colin Walters
2002-03-08  9:07                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08 18:52                   ` Colin Walters
2002-03-09 10:49                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-03 14:39   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04  4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04  4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04  4:50   ` Colin Walters

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