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Re: server stuff
From: |
Dave Love |
Subject: |
Re: server stuff |
Date: |
17 Jan 2003 13:57:10 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs/address@hidden> writes:
> I think the stickiness is a "nonissue" since TMPDIR should either
> be sticky or writable only by the user (otherwise, you get many more
> holes anyway).
Yes, but.
> I don't know if the "local"ness is an issue.
Most bets seem to be off under Nightmare File System.
> If we don't obey TMP or TMPDIR, we should still allow the
> user some way to specify a different socket location so she
> can have several active emacs servers at the same time.
Frobbing TMPDIR doesn't seem the right way to do that. What's wrong
with a server number à la X's :1 if you want to support several
connexions?
> Indeed, I had no idea that the access rights of sockets might be ignored
> on some (non-negligible) systems.
Nor did I...
Re: server stuff, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/12