Re: me and me as root must wastefully use separate emacses?

[Francesco Potorti`]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:
   hearing mentioned: start emacs as root, then have 99% of emacs "su
   my_regular_id" itself, leaving that 1% for when I want to do a quick
   edit of something as root.

Emacs is a very complex and big program.  Much smaller and simple
programs have had very big security problems by following this approach.
Not being a security expert, I think that what you propose is simply
unfeasible for a big program.