From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:07:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="22693"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 17:26:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLFp-0001IV-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:19:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLFo-0005wQ-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47073) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLET-00058R-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLEQ-0000VW-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60320 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLEO-0000TC-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmL5E-0000eJ-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:08:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:JyccwITdLKDmtgSeIe8giHD4Dmo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232641 Archived-At: >> This is because I run my Emacs via a symlink, and load_pdump is not >> careful to try and follow symlinks while looking for the .pdmp next to >> the executable. > Since argv[0] is almost never absolute, that route doesn't work anyway. > It's even a security bug, since it happily loads a (possibly > manipulated) dump file from the current directory if it has the right > hash. Oh, indeed, it looks for it in the current directory! I opened a bug report. Stefan