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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: possible security problem in kmail 1.6
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-15 20:42:49
Message-ID: 200402152142.59942 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Sunday 15 February 2004 20:41, Andreas Pour wrote:
> IIUTC, this seems to be an architectural design flaw in
> KUniqueApplication.  If all the user-visible windows have been
> closed, a flag should be set and the running instance not re-used,
> due to the obvious problems with having cached data that a user would
> believe is no longer cached and which could thus expose all kinds of
> private data.

Sorry, but under no circumstances must two instances of KMail run at the 
same time exactly because not all cached data (e.g. folder indices, 
etc.) has been written back to disk and therefore inconsistencies 
wouldn't be avoidable.

Regards,
Ingo

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