Re: emacsclient startup messages

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

Hi Eli,

I have been applying the patch to my Ubuntu 20.04 builds for a couple of days and everything as worked well. Wouldn't it be a good time to put it into emacs-28?

Just asking, /PA

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 16:44, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi again,

it took a bit longer, but here we are... The patch does what I was dreaming of (i.e. getting rid of the xdg message when calling emacsclient with -a or when $ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set.

Thanks!

/PA

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 11:03, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> wrote:

HI Jim,

I've patched my emacs-28 source and am compiling the whole beat right now.

Once installed, I'll let you know :-)

/PA

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 at 21:47, Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/30/2021 12:16 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 10/30/2021 10:39 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> There can be situations where there is an XDG environment for the client
>> but not for the daemon.
>
> Right, the patch in bug#33847 should handle that case correctly, but I'm
> pretty sure the current implementation opens users who spawn the Emacs
> daemon on-demand to symlink attacks. That's due to the code needing to
> check both XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and TMPDIR before being sure there's no
> daemon to connect to.
>
> I can think of two ways to avoid this issue:
[snip]
> 2) If XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor are both
> set, never check TMPDIR. This should let both cases work without
> requiring users to explicitly set a flag anywhere, but it the lack of
> explicitness could be more confusing. I think this should work fine in
> all cases, since users running `emacs --daemon' without XDG probably
> won't be using ALTERNATE_EDITOR (the daemon should always be running, so
> there's no need for an alternate editor).

I posted a patch for method (2) to bug#51327 here:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-10/msg02638.html>.

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