[erlang-questions] binary_to_term and Leaking Atoms

[Robert Virding]

There is always the obvious solution: decode the binary yourself and use
XXX_to_existing_atom to be safe. It won't be as fast but the binary encoding
is relativly straight forward and shouldn't cause any problems.

Robert

2009/10/2 Jayson Vantuyl <kagato@REDACTED>

> That works if I was just sending an atom as a binary, but I was hoping to
> send whole data structures using term_to_binary.  Looks like there's no way
> to make that atom safe, then?
>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Max Lapshin wrote:
>
>  There are  erlang:binary_to_existing_atom/2,
>> erlang:list_to_existing_atom/1
>>
>
>
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> Jayson Vantuyl
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