From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ptrdiff_t misuse [was :Re: (empty)] Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:12:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4FEEFB48.2020607@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83lij66yq9.fsf@gnu.org> <4FEDB953.1010800@yandex.ru> <4FEEA720.2040405@cs.ucla.edu> <838vf56yzu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341061977 1357 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2012 13:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 15:12:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SkxTn-0000kj-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:12:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkxTn-0006HK-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkxTl-0006HF-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkxTk-0006xQ-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:58996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkxTh-0006wx-9n; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF264A6000E; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:12:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B5P+tcbT4BsK; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.16] (unknown [68.171.84.68]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B254A60004; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:12:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <838vf56yzu.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151321 Archived-At: On 06/30/2012 02:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > But since this will _never_ happen in real life Surely this overflow can happen in real life, by putting the proper strings into a text file that someone visits, which is the sort of thing that a trickster would do.