From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:01:14 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203110901.g2B91Ej04386@wijiji.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1015757200.18074.71.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 10 Mar 2002 05:46:40 -0500)
> One way to solve this problem is by having Emacs installation create
> the desired files under /var/games/emacs, make them world-writable,
> and make /var/games/emacs read-only.
The problem I see with this is that we can't use `rename-file', and thus
we lose atomicity of score file updates. If multiple users are
concurrently reading and writing the same file, it will eventually be
corrupted.
You are right.
How do other game programs handle this?
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-01 1:15 many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Colin Walters
2002-03-02 11:52 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-02 21:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-02 23:13 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-03 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-03 20:36 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-04 0:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-04 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 2:26 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:57 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 21:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 4:30 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-05 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-03-05 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06 4:40 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06 7:35 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-07 2:40 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-07 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-08 9:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08 9:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-10 10:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-11 9:01 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-03-17 22:08 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 22:36 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 23:49 ` Steve Kemp
2002-03-19 0:31 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-19 6:22 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-20 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-27 23:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-31 1:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 7:30 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-05 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-06 19:05 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-08 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08 18:52 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-09 10:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-03 14:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:50 ` Colin Walters
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