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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:01:14 -0700 (MST) |
> One way to solve this problem is by having Emacs installation create
> the desired files under /var/games/emacs, make them world-writable,
> and make /var/games/emacs read-only.
The problem I see with this is that we can't use `rename-file', and thus
we lose atomicity of score file updates. If multiple users are
concurrently reading and writing the same file, it will eventually be
corrupted.
You are right.
How do other game programs handle this?
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/07
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/10
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/17
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Steve Kemp, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Pavel JanÃk, 2002/03/19
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/20
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/27
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/30
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/06