From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 9:12:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C5637B405 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4739DBCF7 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04320 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:12:49 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9AGCR043378; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:12:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability References: <9ptk3o$14kg$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <44d73xt0y9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <0110090955220A.07185@prime.vsservices.com> <448zejljtz.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 10 Oct 2001 09:12:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: <448zejljtz.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Lowell Gilbert writes: > The original concern, about whether emacs could have malicious code > shipped with it, is more realistic. I think it's not worth worrying > about, because there really are more eyes on the code, on a more > regular basis, than the original poster realized. Erroneous code was more on my mind than malicious code. I'm willing to assume that the development project's code-tracking software discourages malicious code to a tolerable risk level. After all, I use the FreeBSD ports and package system. And I tolerate even the risk of erroneous code in that root-run software for practical reasons with more incentive than just the convenience of using XEmacs (vs. vi) on root-privileged files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message