GNU bug report logs - #7517
24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X

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Packages: ns, emacs;

Reported by: emacs user <user.emacs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #95 received at 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>,
	user.emacs <at> gmail.com, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:56:46 -0500

> Emacs should never use unibyte strings for buffer names.

I don't think we make any effort to prevent this from happening.

And I'm not completely sure that it would be worth the trouble either:
I suspect that wherever a unibyte buffer-name would cause problem
(mode-line, window title, younameit), some other unibyte string could
appear from elsewhere just as well, so enforcing multibyte buffer-names
wouldn't close the vulnerabilities.


        Stefan
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