From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:30 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: <871ukgy3ct.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342135195 30302 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2012 23:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:19:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 01:19:55 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 1SpSfp-0003r8-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:19:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpSfo-0002Ds-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpSfl-0002Db-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpSfj-0005Wu-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpSfj-0005Wq-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SpSfg-0003WB-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:19:44 +0200 Original-Received: from cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com ([8.18.54.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:19:44 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:19:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:3phV9f82InZJHtV8+PGL+gGIzSk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:151570 Archived-At: > * Stefan Monnier [2012-07-12 09:55:14 -0400]: > > Just for the record: Emacs's FFI should not be able to open just any > random shared library. Only the ones that come with the needed extra > "I'm compatible with the GPL" branding (as attested by the > presence of the "plugin_is_GPL_compatible" symbol, IIRC). I can load any elisp into my emacs. Why shouldn't I be able to interact with any shared library? -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://think-israel.org http://camera.org http://memri.org http://jihadwatch.org http://dhimmi.com http://www.memritv.org Kleptomania: the ability to find stuff even before its owner loses it.