From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 6:23:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99AB537B405 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 381 invoked by uid 100); 10 Oct 2001 13:23:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15300.19429.657270.729870@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:23:49 -0500 To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: GB Clark II , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 types: > GB Clark II 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. 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