GNU bug report logs - #45198
28.0.50; Sandbox mode

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Message #101 received at 45198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 45198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#45198: 28.0.50; Sandbox mode
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:01:38 -0500

>> I must say I don't know what's being discussed here.
>> What autoloads?  Why do we care?
> If a user looks at elisp code that depends on autoloads and the checker
> process cannot load those for reasons of sandbox policy or whatnot, there
> will be false positives about missing functions. This is fine if we are
> phasing out autoloads but as far as I know we're not.

I don't understand why it would be different for autoloads than for
functions provided by `require`d packages.

Also, if we add all the dirs in `load-path` to the set of readable
directories (and I do think we want to do that) this should not be
an issue, right?


        Stefan

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