From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:56:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <863b8d64-2964-ca66-efa9-40e4ecf46340@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E86F07B-EE45-41EA-A081-00E9844BDE4C@acm.org>
On 3/16/19 12:04 PM, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Now I searched for such cases and found lots, and decided to postpone it since it's mostly cosmetic -- unless we are concerned about newlines in file names, which we perhaps should be.
>
I'm afraid we should be, since newlines in file names are well-known
attack vector
<https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html>.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-19 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 18:09 Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-16 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-16 19:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-16 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-19 1:56 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-03-16 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-16 19:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
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