Re: master 739593d 3/5: Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:59:44 -0700
> 
> Although perhaps someone can come up with a better idea, "Just do interactive 
> renames the way we were doing it" is not better, as it would leave 
> interactive 
> users vulnerable to the attack. Although users may like to think that they 
> are 
> "unpredictable" and are thus relatively invulnerable to the attack, they're 
> not 
> really that unpredictable.

Maybe you should again describe the attack scenario.  Last time you
did, it was pretty clear to me that no bot or person can reasonably
know in advance what file or directory the user will copy/rename.