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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jasonr <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:11:53 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  jasonr <at> gnu.org,  emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:16:51 -0400
> 
> I think we need to consider the testing part and the file (or dir)
> creation part separately.

100% agreement.

> And my previous messages pointed out that the core problem
> (securitywise) is in the creation part, which is hence unrelated to
> the above 3 other cases.

Are you okay with adding a primitive for solving the creation part,
and will such a primitive be allowed into the repository even though
we are in feature freeze?

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