From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:10 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200203042341.g24NfAA00521@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <1014945351.23435.102.camel@space-ghost> <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200203032036.MAA29961@radish.petrofsky.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015285844 24050 195.204.10.66 (4 Mar 2002 23:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 2002 23:50:44 GMT Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu, Pavel@Janik.cz, walters@verbum.org, 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 16i2E7-0006Fo-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:50:44 +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 16i27o-0007uI-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16i24t-0007Wn-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:41:11 -0500 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g24NfJu26537; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:19 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g24NfAA00521; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:10 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: al@petrofsky.org In-reply-to: <200203032036.MAA29961@radish.petrofsky.org> (message from Al Petrofsky on Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:36:10 -0800) 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:1727 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1727 Is this sufficient? That code needs comments to explain what it is trying to do and why that is right. After some study, I think I see WHAT it does, but I can't see why one would want to do that. It seems to make the file read-only; why do that? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel