[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings
|
From: |
Paul Eggert |
|
Subject: |
Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings |
|
Date: |
Sun, 17 May 2020 14:36:36 -0700 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 5/17/20 11:02 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 17.05.2020 20:10, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Since there are so many ways that a password cache can be
>> cleared and clearing means the strings holding passwords need to be mutable,
>
> Um, why?
It's done under the assumption that it makes Emacs more "secure".
> A cache normally doesn't mutate the values, it only holds on to them.
This cache mutates its values, unfortunately.
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Paul Eggert, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Paul Eggert, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/18
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Paul Eggert, 2020/05/18