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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: storm@cua.dk
Subject: Re: Suggested enhancement: allow emacsclient to send arbitrary LISP expressions
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:08:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113210836.GC15682@think.thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18WlrQ-0000Oa-00@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Stepping back to the beginning of this thread, this is actually
>     already implemented in CVS emacs:
> 
> 	    emacsclient --eval '(make-frame-on-display "localhost:12")'

Great!  So it sounds like I don't need to send legal papers to the
FSF, since somoene else has implemented this rather obvious idea.

> Then it would appear we have a serious security problem already,
> on some systems.
> 
> I will comment out this feature; when someone makes the changes
> necessary to make it safe, we can turn it back on.

How about it making it configurable via a variable, which is nil by
default.  That way those of us who are running non-broken systems
where the permissions on unix-domain sockets are actually respected
can enjoy the functionality right away.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-13 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-02 20:48 Suggested enhancement: allow emacsclient to send arbitrary LISP expressions tytso
2003-01-05 18:34 ` expressions Richard Stallman
2003-01-05 19:55   ` expressions Bob Halley
2003-01-06  0:49     ` expressions Kim F. Storm
2003-01-06  1:55       ` expressions Bob Halley
2003-01-06 20:06         ` expressions chad
2003-01-06 20:32           ` expressions Bob Halley
2003-01-07 10:11             ` expressions Kim F. Storm
2003-01-07 19:23               ` expressions Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-11 19:48               ` expressions Stefan Monnier
2003-01-07 10:14       ` expressions Kai Großjohann
2003-01-06 17:13     ` expressions Richard Stallman
2003-01-06 20:37       ` expressions Bob Halley
2003-01-08 21:00       ` expressions Andreas Schwab
2003-01-07 11:53     ` expressions Theodore Ts'o
2003-01-08  8:00       ` expressions Richard Stallman
2003-01-11 19:47       ` expressions Stefan Monnier
2003-01-08 13:50 ` Suggested enhancement: allow emacsclient to send arbitrary LISP expressions Kim F. Storm
2003-01-09 23:13   ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-13 21:08     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2003-01-14 18:55       ` Richard Stallman

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