From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 6: 9:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3177B37B403 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 06:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f99D93518200; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:09:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: code density vs readability References: <9ptk3o$14kg$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 09 Oct 2001 09:09:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: tms2@mail.ptd.net's message of "9 Oct 2001 09:32:40 +0800" Message-ID: <44d73xt0y9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org tms2@mail.ptd.net ("T.M. Sommers") writes: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > > > j mckitrick writes: > > > > > I finally took several people's advice. I didn't give up VI, but emacs > > > is amazing for big, complicated jobs. > > > > I've been using only Emacs (actually mostly XEmacs and some small Emacs > > clones like Jed) for a long time, but recently decided it would be > > better to try to force myself to use vi for editing as root. (I learned > > it 20 years ago and liked the two-mode concept, but I've forgotten all > > but the very basics.) > > > > I got to worrying about the amount of Emacs code there is and to suspect > > that much of it changes often and is seen by only a few eyes and am > > thinking it will be safer from a security standpoint to run vi. > > > > Is that overly paranoid? Do other people have this concern? Do many > > people run XEmacs or Emacs as root on a regular basis? Does vim have a > > lot of similarly suspectable code in it too? > > If memory serves, the Great Worm of '88 exploited a security hole in > Emacs (among other things). No. rsh, sendmail, and finger daemons. No user applications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message