From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 14:36:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02b0ee0f-c386-f51a-f8d2-ef338fcec1bc@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d50e9ee3-d348-6b27-df73-a9e75b60fbe2@yandex.ru>
On 5/17/20 11:02 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 17.05.2020 20:10, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Since there are so many ways that a password cache can be
>> cleared and clearing means the strings holding passwords need to be mutable,
>
> Um, why?
It's done under the assumption that it makes Emacs more "secure".
> A cache normally doesn't mutate the values, it only holds on to them.
This cache mutates its values, unfortunately.
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[not found] ` <20200517052513.C95BC20A2C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-05-17 11:22 ` master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 17:01 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 11:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 17:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 21:36 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-05-17 21:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 23:16 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 23:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-18 7:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-18 22:49 ` Paul Eggert
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