From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in update-game-score.c Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:59:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8361pbg5vy.fsf@gnu.org> <52E08D31.3080801@cs.ucla.edu> <8338kffj7m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390449597 20981 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 03:59:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 05:00:05 2014 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 1W6BSW-0008Pc-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:00:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BSW-0006vH-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BST-0006uy-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:00:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BSS-0000cp-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BSS-0000cj-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BSR-0000h1-Nv; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:59:59 -0500 X-Spook: constitution USCODE Capricorn 64 Vauxhall Cross AK-47 X-Ran: oa~QS19Sc*&!pI#wg$.?`v0rpX1391M0b{fQjAsm2]"ELW^/x2G)--]gC25_.[|.uW%O)3 X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <8338kffj7m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:52:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168930 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > (Why isn't it implemented in Lisp, anyway?) The only reason this program exists (AFAIK) is so it can be setuid, so that there can be a shared game score file owned by a "games" user.