[378] in bugtraq
Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Goldberg)
Tue Dec 6 10:52:46 1994
To: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
Cc: Bill Broadley <broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 06 Dec 1994 03:50:58 PST.
<Pine.SUN.3.91.941206034736.14748C-100000@phase.helix.net>
Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:00:26 -0500
From: Dave Goldberg <dsg@blackbird.mitre.org>
Yeah, I've always wondered why Stallman et al, when they wrote v19,
left enable-local-variables to t when they should have followed what
they did with enable-local-eval which is set to query the user. At
least it can be turned off or set to query in site-start.el or
default.el.
Vi (acutally ex - vi inherits it) has a similar feature, or at least
some versions do. It required a line with (as I recall) something
like : followed by an ex command in the first or last five lines. As
I recall that feature doesn't exist everywhere. It doesn't seem to be
documented in Solaris 2.3's vi or ex man page. We had a problem with
this under Ultrix at one point because our password file had an entry
that fit the bill. Took us a while to figure out why vipw cause the
file to get messed up. Fortunately :q! got us out of it without a
disaster :-)
Dave Goldberg
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