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Re: Suggested enhancement: allow emacsclient to send arbitrary LISP expr
From: |
Theodore Ts'o |
Subject: |
Re: Suggested enhancement: allow emacsclient to send arbitrary LISP expressions |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:08:36 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Stepping back to the beginning of this thread, this is actually
> already implemented in CVS emacs:
>
> emacsclient --eval '(make-frame-on-display "localhost:12")'
Great! So it sounds like I don't need to send legal papers to the
FSF, since somoene else has implemented this rather obvious idea.
> Then it would appear we have a serious security problem already,
> on some systems.
>
> I will comment out this feature; when someone makes the changes
> necessary to make it safe, we can turn it back on.
How about it making it configurable via a variable, which is nil by
default. That way those of us who are running non-broken systems
where the permissions on unix-domain sockets are actually respected
can enjoy the functionality right away.
- Ted