Jürgen,

I will put a check for )MORE availability in the end_input function and
display a notification in Emacs when it contains something. Would this be
the right approach?

Regards,
Elias


On 20 February 2014 23:44, Juergen Sauermann
<juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> the normal 3-line error printout is documented by IBM and shall remain as
> is for compatibility.
>
> I will, however, put more information about errors in )MORE such as file
> names, strerror() stings and the like.
>
> Pleas feel free to indicate where the information related to errors is not
> sufficient.
>
> /// Jürgen
>
>
>
>
> On 02/20/2014 12:16 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
>
> On 20 Feb 2014 18:57, "Kacper Gutowski" <mwgam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2014-02-16 18:09:06, Juergen Sauermann wrote:
> > > Ad 1) I changed the assertions Symbol.cc to short warnings visible in
> )MORE.
> >
> > I wouldn't guess to check )MORE upon getting VALUE ERROR on shared
> > variable, but I guess it's better than failed assertion.
>
> Hmm, this makes me think about a new feature for the Emacs mode: some kind
> of warning in the modeline when there is an unread )MORE message.
>
> Would this be useful? Do you get these kinds of messages often? I rarely
> look for it.
>
> > It appears to work correctly for cooperating users now.  Malicious user,
> > however, can still easily destroy other users' coupling of shared
> variables.
> > I'm not going to push for changing it right now because I don't see any
> way
> > to exploit it beyond denial of service and I'm not using shared variables
> > for anything serious, but I think that it should be done eventually.
>
> I suppose some proper authentication and authorisation mechanism is needed
> too. Then comes the question of encryption. Things like Kerberos is easy to
> add and is powerful. However, it does require infrastructure a lot of
> people don't have.
>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
>
>

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