From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 19858@debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Subject: bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2smw49cf55.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk2zfyja7.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:46:41 -0500")
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Presumably, HOME is only writable by yourself, so you can presume that
> there's no attacker trying play race-condition tricks on you in there to
> try and get to run code under your UID.
If it meant "it's safe so long as no-one else can write to the
containing directory", then I think it should have said that rather than
making assumptions about the permissions of HOME.
Anyway, I don't think those various qualifications were helpful, so I
basically removed them from the doc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-20 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 21:57 bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-14 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 22:33 ` Glenn Morris
2015-02-18 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 5:42 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-02-20 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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