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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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Message #545 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Francis Litterio <flitterio <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:04:02 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Stefan Monnier

>> But I'd argue that having the umask (aka default-file-modes) set to
>> #o700 could be used as a tell-tale sign, so it sounds to me like it
>> might be doable by adding w32 C code without any C-level changes.
>
> So you are saying we should assume that when umask has its two lower
> mode bits set to zero, the intent is to create a private file
> accessible only by the user who runs Emacs?  I don't like such
> assumptions, but if I'm the only one, so be it.

Overloading the semantics of a subset of the bits in the umask seems
prone to confusion.  Why not create a new w32-... variable to encode
those semantics?
--
Fran

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