From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 03:49:18 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200203091049.g29AnIo03691@wijiji.santafe.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> <200203080907.g2897ns02488@wijiji.santafe.edu> <1015613560.22596.53.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby.gnus.org X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1015671142 4637 80.91.224.244 (9 Mar 2002 10:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Mar 2002 10:52:22 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16jeSb-0001Ch-00 for ; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:52:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jeRi-0007UA-00; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 05:51:26 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jePf-0007L9-00; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 05:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g29AnTu17891; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 03:49:29 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g29AnIo03691; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 03:49:18 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: walters@verbum.org In-reply-to: <1015613560.22596.53.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 08 Mar 2002 13:52:40 -0500) 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:1821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1821 My original thought was that it might not be appropriate for Emacs in general, since Emacs runs on so many platforms, which have differing ideas of where to put things like this. But I guess that someone who wants this to be configurable could use the --localstatedir argument to configure. We can easily provide many ways to configure things. So please do this work in the Emacs sources rather than in Debian's modified version. Ok? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel