From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:59:43 -0500 Message-ID: <200203061659.g26GxhS08056@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <1014945351.23435.102.camel@space-ghost> <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200203042340.g24NexL00497@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203051520.g25FKbw01899@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1015389617.25883.37.camel@space-ghost> <1015400126.18074.0.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015438895 29708 195.204.10.66 (6 Mar 2002 18:21:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 18:21:35 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16ig2h-0007j4-00 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:21:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ieme-0007Ki-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:00:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ielV-0007FK-00 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:59:45 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26GxhS08056; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:59:43 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Colin Walters Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1762 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1762 > How about the following? One issue still to consider is whether or not > we should default to writing game state in ~/.emacs.d, or in > `temporary-file-directory'. Any opinions? [...] > + DEFVAR_LISP ("game-state-directory", &Vgame_state_directory, > + doc: /* Directory of high-score and other state files for games. > +Depending on your system setup, this may or may not default to a > +shared directory. */); There's no point in declaring it in the C code since it's only used from elisp. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel