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Re: Risky local variable mechanism


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Risky local variable mechanism
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:02:42 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> What does your patch do for the case where the user is root?  The user
> may very well consider things safe when he is not running as root that
> would be dangerous when running as root.  But he uses the same .emacs
> when running as root.

I think if something is not safe enough for root, it should also be
considered unsafe for random users.  So I don't see any need to make
a distinction.


        Stefan




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