From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:46 -0500 Message-ID: <2smw49cf55.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y4o1wk3o.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424410997 17866 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2015 05:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19858@debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 20 06:43:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMm-0003pK-9U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:43:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMl-0004er-Oo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMh-0004em-BI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMg-0006cz-Ky for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57814) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMg-0006cv-HX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMg-0004rl-7t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:43:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19858 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19858-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19858.142441097018688 (code B ref 19858); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19858) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2015 05:42:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49054 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMT-0004rL-Ou for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:55902) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMR-0004rE-VF for 19858@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOgMQ-0004N7-Uh; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:46 -0500 X-Spook: Craig Livingstone Hugo Chavez War on Terrorism Montenegro X-Ran: QI|K>"ObdEvE[x^ewf1Xcz4}`gK!o^]^SLW3]Okjq%`D!~G4$]dw~5t8R&CcL!Amt">{A( X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:46:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:99624 Archived-At: 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.