From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:10:55 -0700 (MST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203200510.g2K5Atl09572@wijiji.santafe.edu> 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> <1015400126.18074.0.camel@space-ghost> <200203080908.g28986Z02524@wijiji.santafe.edu> <1015757200.18074.71.camel@space-ghost> <200203110901.g2B91Ej04386@wijiji.santafe.edu> <1016402881.5455.24.camel@space-ghost> <200203182006.g2IK6dB08697@wijiji.santafe.edu> <1016490983.17157.4.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016666194 17334 127.0.0.1 (20 Mar 2002 23:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16npJq-0004VT-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:16:34 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16npPn-0006cW-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:22:43 +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 16npJh-0007sx-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from delysid.gnu.org ([158.121.106.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nooO-0002XV-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by delysid.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 16nYUU-00035b-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2K5Awa06643; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:10:58 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g2K5Atl09572; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:10:55 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: walters@verbum.org In-Reply-To: <1016490983.17157.4.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 18 Mar 2002 17:36:23 -0500) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2063 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2063 And we should probably impose a limit of, say, 50 scores, and 200 characters in a score line. Please avoid arbitrary limits such as those. The GNU coding standards say we should avoid arbitrary limits whenever possible. Other than that, it sounds like a good solution except that it should be more general, not limited to Emacs alone. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel