Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:23:49 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <15300.19429.657270.729870@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <448zejljtz.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> 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>
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Lowell Gilbert <lowell@be-well.ilk.org> types: > GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com> writes: > > There was at one time a hole in emacs that would let you write system files. > > This was about 8 or 9 years ago I belive. > Impossible. emacs runs with user privileges, so no hole in it could > have any effect like this. Gnu emacs comes with a command called "movemail" that moves a users mailbox before sicking rmail on it. It ran with elevated privileges. The hole referred to was actually in movemail; it could be coerced doing arbitrary copies. I fixed this at Berkely, which I left over 11 years ago. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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