From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: emacs user <user.emacs@gmail.com>
Cc: "Uday S. Reddy" <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>,
cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
7517@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:30:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D1E5987.2000502@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=JN3AjvyBcAC5uTi4pnyARnUkOO8U95vDiyWvY@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Emacs should never use unibyte strings for buffer names.
>
> I don't think we make any effort to prevent this from happening.
>
> And I'm not completely sure that it would be worth the trouble either:
> I suspect that wherever a unibyte buffer-name would cause problem
> (mode-line, window title, younameit), some other unibyte string could
> appear from elsewhere just as well, so enforcing multibyte buffer-names
> wouldn't close the vulnerabilities.
If we don't at least ENCODE_UTF_8 should do the right thing. Is the coding
for these kind of strings known? If not and we don't enforce encoding in
basic interfaces, we must deal with all existing encodings?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-31 22:30 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <AANLkTinQHfFXazEbf+qxtz5+MfKcaXQLN18nPnyQMj8X@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=eou59qi2vgMZpWpcWy5xJfgkCKbYr-_LcqYDH@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-29 4:29 ` bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X Chong Yidong
2010-12-29 11:59 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-29 12:21 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-29 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-29 16:06 ` emacs user
2010-12-30 11:35 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-30 14:20 ` emacs user
2010-12-30 22:02 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 6:11 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 6:12 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 11:16 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 10:49 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 11:23 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 11:26 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 13:06 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 13:18 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 13:10 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 14:22 ` Jan Djärv
2010-12-31 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 16:09 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 18:57 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-01 3:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-31 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-31 17:42 ` emacs user
2010-12-31 22:30 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-12-31 23:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 12:46 ` emacs user
2011-01-01 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 17:02 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-01 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 18:34 ` Jan D.
2011-01-02 14:02 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-03 21:34 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-01 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-01 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-01 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <8362u8pkg6.fsf__47242.3368752517$1293906238$gmane$org@gnu.org>
2011-01-01 22:43 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-02 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-02 20:43 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-02 22:06 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-03 4:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-03 8:10 ` emacs user
2011-01-02 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 4:50 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-01-03 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-03 21:07 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-03 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-31 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-31 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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