found 473746 21.4a+1-3etch1 severity 473746 important thanks On 2008-04-01 14:33:24 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > It's a known problem, see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426733#14 for an > explanation and a patch.
This still occurs in emacs21 21.4a+1-3etch1. At my lab (with NFS-mounted home directories), this froze emacs for more than 3 minutes! I don't know what emacs does with this file, but I also wonder whether this could be a security bug if some local user skx adds a nasty /home/skx/emacs21-21.4a+1/etc/GNU file (even if this is just a text file, a huge file or a symlink to /dev/random may have bad effects if emacs tries to read it entirely, but I can't test). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
