From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:37:45 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27364"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 22:39:13 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oSP3p-0006s9-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43864 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSP3o-0001K8-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSP2l-0000Kl-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:30100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSP2U-0003Rx-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:38:06 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 41628 invoked by uid 3782); 28 Aug 2022 22:37:46 +0200 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p2e5d5a4e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [46.93.90.78]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:37:45 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 14358 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Aug 2022 20:37:45 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.3; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294266 Archived-At: Hello, Gregory. On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 20:09:28 +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote: > >>> That means either that you're running fbterm and Emacs as root, or > >>> that fbterm is installed with a setuid bit or has the SYS_TTY_CONFIG > >>> capability, which you can remove (see upthread). > >> Isn't there some way to explicitly request the "unprivileged" mode of > >> operation (e.g. with a command line arg, config file setting, you name > >> it) so it also applies when the application does have the needed > >> privilege (e.g. when running as root)? > > No, there isn't. > Of course there is. All details are in the new FAQ node that will be > installed after being reviewed. OK, I was wrong. Thanks for the education! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).