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

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Packages: emacs, ns;

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

From: emacs user <user.emacs <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Uday S. Reddy" <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com,
	emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>, 7517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:42:25 +0200

anyway, the fix worked and crashes are gone!  frame title is now "bad
coding".  many thanks for this.  E

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> 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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