From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Walters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: 08 Mar 2002 13:52:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1015613560.22596.53.camel@space-ghost> References: <1014945351.23435.102.camel@space-ghost> <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200203042340.g24NexL00497@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203051520.g25FKbw01899@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1015389617.25883.37.camel@space-ghost> <200203080907.g2897ns02488@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby.gnus.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1015614231 31797 80.91.224.244 (8 Mar 2002 19:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Mar 2002 19:03:51 GMT Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16jPeg-0008Gl-00 for ; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:03:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jPdy-0005t7-00; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:03:06 -0500 Original-Received: from monk.debian.net ([216.185.54.61] helo=monk.verbum.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jPbo-0005pi-00 for ; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from space-ghost.verbum.private (freedom.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.60.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "space-ghost.verbum.org", Issuer "monk.verbum.org" (verified OK)) by monk.verbum.org (Postfix (Debian/GNU)) with ESMTP id 5886874000B9 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:00:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by space-ghost.verbum.private (Postfix (Debian/GNU), from userid 1000) id 1AC6E8E262D; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:52:40 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200203080907.g2897ns02488@wijiji.santafe.edu> X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1808 On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:07, Richard Stallman wrote: > Well, for the Debian packaged version of Emacs, I think we will set it > up so emacs is setgid games, and writes to /var/games/emacs or so. > > Why are you working on forks for the Debian modified version > instead of working on making Emacs itself do the right thing? > Whatever that right thing may be, it doesn't make sense > to do it only in the Debian modified version. My original thought was that it might not be appropriate for Emacs in general, since Emacs runs on so many platforms, which have differing ideas of where to put things like this. But I guess that someone who wants this to be configurable could use the --localstatedir argument to configure. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel