Package: emacs22
Version: 22.2+2-2
Severity: important

strace emacs -nw 

[ snip lots of output ]

stat64("/etc/lib-src", 0xbfcfeb44)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
readlink("/etc/alternatives/emacs", "/usr/bin/emacs22-x", 100) = 18
stat64("/usr/bin/lib-src", 0xbfcfeb44)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/lib-src", 0xbfcfeb44)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
readlink("/usr/bin/emacs22-x", 0x855dab0, 100) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
stat64("/usr/share/emacs/22.2/etc/GNU", 0xbfcfeb24) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory)
stat64("/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/etc/GNU",

[ and there it hung because my automounter was busted ]

I'm not rlb and my home directory isn't /home/rlb. This path doesn't
show up in any of the emacs startup scripts (~/.emacs, /etc/emacs*/*,
where else should I look?)

strings /usr/bin/emacs shows:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] strings /usr/bin/emacs | grep rlb
/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/lisp
/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/debian/build-x/src/
/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/debian/build-x/src/
/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/debian/build-x/lib-src
/home/rlb/bin
/home/rlb/deb/emacs/22/sid/debian/build-x/lib-src/
... and a lot more.

I noticed this when my automounter started misbehaving and emacs hung while
starting up. Emacs probably shouldn't be accessing this directory
without being told to. If I created a /home/rlb and filled it with all
kinds of interesting elisp, would that be a bit of a security
problem? 

thank you for your time!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-06058-ga01e035 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages emacs22 depends on:
ii  emacs22-bin-common     22.2+2-2          The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  libasound2             1.0.16-2          ALSA library
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgif4                4.1.6-4           library for GIF images (library)
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080419-2    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-8           Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                1:3.5.7-1         X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg                 1.5+E-15          Xaw3d widget set
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

emacs22 recommends no packages.

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