bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  jasonr@gnu.org,  
> emacs-pretest-bug@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?