Re: Anyone interested in the return of the x/X encryption commands?

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:35 PM Paul Jackson <pj@usa.net> wrote:


> For one thing, ed creates tmp files which I would guess would
> be, if x/X were reincarnated, unencrypted and visible in the
> user's tmp directory.


That's a very good point, and thank you for pointing it outtt, though in
these Latter Days of the Law few people have access to anyone else's /tmp
directory.  It would be reasonable to rewrite buffer.c to use an in-memory
buffer, since ed can't recover from a crash as ex/vi can.  You can also
arrange for ed to never core dump using setrlimit(), which is Posix.

> Mostly the above is "just me" expressing disinterest.
>

I have no problem with that.