From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <48158535.6070301@gnu.org> References: <87od7vr0kt.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <4814ED09.8030707@gnu.org> <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <48150C03.1010303@gnu.org> <87hcdm6553.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209369929 22838 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2008 08:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 10:06:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JqON8-0005MD-NL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:06:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqOMS-0007Pp-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqOMO-0007PL-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqOMM-0007Np-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55310 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqOMM-0007Nk-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqOML-0003lK-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqOMK-00018O-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05:13 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 69791221/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAEYiFUhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBU6d9 X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2008 09:05:11 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23CF1E0; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:05:10 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87hcdm6553.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:96047 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Jason Rumney > () Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:03 +0100 > > The image entries were all dropped completely because of the > supposed security issues. > > Searching gmane, i see a huge list of postings w/ the subject > "Image mode". Is that what you are referring to? > > A brief read (handful of pages) gives me the impression that the > issue there is the security of image libraries (libpng, etc). Am > i missing something? > Yes, that was the issue. Rereading that thread and others on the subject, it seems that RMS's solution was different than I remembered - he made image-mode prompt the user by default in all cases, and it was later restored when Lars Magnusson convinced him that no other application was this paranoid.