On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 1:46:23 PM UTC-4, Jason Felice wrote: > > I'm a little weirded out by writing binary code out of a jar to a > temporary directory; on the other hand, this does improve distribution, > doesn't it? I imagine all sorts of potential problems, though: 1) multiple > copies of the program overwrite the same file (if a predictable name is > used), and also have a security race, or alternately 2) litering the /tmp/ > directory with bunches of libs. And also 3) this will hurt startup > performance, which is important in my case. > > This means that I would have to take on building this for all of the > binary platforms, which is a chore; and (again) on the other hand, it's a > chore that would allow other apps to never have to have this problem. > > (Avi is a console-based editor, the JNI portion is an ncurses wrapper.) >
You're also likely to run afoul of host security configuration. A lot of admins/OSes don't permit extracting binaries to /tmp and running them as a lot of malware does this as a step in the infection process, first hijacking a host process such as a browser and then writing a bunch of code out to a temp file, which is then executed to perform further malicious actions or is hidden with a rootkit and added to the boot sequence. My own machines here won't run binaries from any of the Windows temp directories, as a defense against (among other things) the nasty Cryptowall and related malware. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
