From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: <45A40BB1.3040409@gmail.com> References: <45A2D32A.8020804@gmail.com> <45A3650B.80504@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168378836 20977 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 21:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dooglus@gmail.com, lekktu@gmail.com, c.a.rendle@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 22:40:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4Ohm-0006sZ-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Ohm-0006fb-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OhT-0006ek-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OhR-0006bx-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4OhQ-0006bQ-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4OhN-0001Ry-MB; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62951 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H4OhK-0007k2-5o; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:39:59 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0702-0, 2007-01-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H4OhK-0007k2-5o. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1H4OhK-0007k2-5o 30db07fcfa7d4d8395308483eb9401d8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65079 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Whichever way it is done it puts a new burdon on the user who have to > look for security updates to these image libraries and somehow update > them in case of a security problem with them. And in addition to this > there might be a long delay before the libraries are updated in gnuwin32. > > Maybe so. > > Using Microsoft libraries would be more convenient for users, but more > work for us, since they use incompatible calling conventions. > Furthermore, Microsoft software is famous for having more > vulnerabilities than GNU/Linux. So I don't think that is a solution > to the security concerns. It would enable us to say "It's Microsoft's > fault", but would not prevent the problem. Yes, of course a compatibility layer have to be created and I have no idea about what problems lies in that. Microsoft is quite a bit famous for all the bugs, yes. However my main point is that the user will know what problems he faces. He/she does not have to consult several IT security sources to get the knowledge and that is an advantage. There may be better solutions than my suggestion of course. I wonder how Firefox handles this? I can't remember for sure right now.