From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: matthew@mattleach.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add systemd socket launching support
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:17:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvpd324t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pou9u7md.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:10:34 +0300")
> I'm not sure myself, but I'm not a criminal, so don't ask me about the
> details. I just know that exposing a handle through which someone can
> feed Emacs any commands they want is a bad idea.
Which part of my proposal exposes such a handle? What do you mean by
"exposing"? The only "exposing" happening is to provide a function that
extracts the FD number from our own process environment. This function
would be implemented using libsystemd so as to avoid re-implementing it
in Elisp (and having to keep it up-to-date with systemd's way of
passing the FD info), but the actual FD data is already available to
Elisp as well as to any other process running on the same machine
(since the env is usually available via "ps" or "/proc/<pid>/environ").
I don't understand.
>> And I'm not sure how the latest patch would address it (you can
>> still cause Emacs to use an arbitrary FD by providing the
>> corresponding envvars).
> That'd require a more serious breach of the system's security.
No. That only requires an Emacs compiled with systemd support.
That doesn't require systemd running.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 20:53 [PATCH v3] Add systemd socket launching support Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 13:31 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 17:38 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-31 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 19:27 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 19:32 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-31 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-01 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-01 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-04-01 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-01 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-01 19:47 ` Matthew Leach
2016-04-01 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 0:53 ` Live System User
2016-03-31 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-31 16:51 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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