From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing Windows and DOS command line argument quoting Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:48:51 +0300 Message-ID: <8362q29nfw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4DB4D7DB.50101@gmail.com> <83y62yal3o.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB53599.8040703@gmail.com> <4DB5BC48.6060605@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303757353 1151 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2011 18:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 20:49:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QEQqL-00048L-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:49:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34174 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEQqL-0002Py-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEQqI-0002Pr-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEQqH-00048v-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:37612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEQqH-00048r-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LK8006001JTTO00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:48:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.156.238]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LK8006AJ1LB8580@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:48:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DB5BC48.6060605@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138759 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:24:08 -0700 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 4/25/11 1:49 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > >> . Please install this only on the trunk. The emacs-23 branch should > >> not be destabilized by such experiments at this time. > > > > Fair enough. > > I'd just like to note that it'd be a good idea to eventually backport > this fix to Emacs 23: it's a security issue. That security issue exists for a very long time. I don't want us to put a change on the release branch whose precise effects are unclear to us. Perhaps later, when we gain more experience on the trunk, we could consider that. (And it's not clear at this point whether there will be Emacs 23.4 at all.)