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Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings |
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Sun, 17 May 2020 16:16:56 -0700 |
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On 5/17/20 2:54 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 18.05.2020 00:36, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> A cache normally doesn't mutate the values, it only holds on to them.
>> This cache mutates its values, unfortunately.
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> Perhaps it should call (copy-sequence val) itself, then? That would be a good
> development practice.
That would run afoul of the whole idea of clearing the string in the first
place, which was to avoid having one's password lying around in memory for a bad
actor to grab it.
- 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, 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, Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/18
- Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings, Paul Eggert, 2020/05/18