From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:18:20 -0500 Message-ID: <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <1014945351.23435.102.camel@space-ghost> <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015176415 15902 195.204.10.66 (3 Mar 2002 17:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2002 17:26:55 GMT Cc: Colin Walters , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16hZl9-00048O-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 18:26:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16hZfT-0002Wb-00; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16hZcs-0002R0-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:18:23 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g23HIKt23295; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:18:20 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-2?q?Jan=EDk?=) 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:1708 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1708 > From: Colin Walters > Date: 02 Mar 2002 16:12:30 -0500 > > > 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? > > How do you share high-scores between users then? We do want to share > scores... It's difficult to do it safely. We could try to allow sharing in the case where the parent dir of the shared file is only writable by root. But in any case sharing should not be done via /tmp. We should instead define a `score-files-directory' which could default to "/var/games" or to "~/.emacs.d". Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel