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Re: Bug#77257: FWD: Joe's Own Editor File Link Vulnerability



from the secret journal of Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au):
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:54:47PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > DEADJOE isn't a temporary file.  It's supposed to be preserved after a
> > crash - that's the whole use of it.  It shows what files were being
> > edited when joe was killed.
> 
> In that case $HOME is fine with me.

what's wrong with the current practice of putting deadjoe in the current
directory?

-- 
Jacob Kuntz
underworld.net/~jake
jpk@cape.com



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