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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/4] Remove ##sys#expand-home-path.


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/4] Remove ##sys#expand-home-path.
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:59:48 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Hi John,

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:01:24 -0400 John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:
>
>>   $ mkdir '~'
>
> While this is certainly Posix-legal, my opinion is that anyone who does
> it deserves to lose.

Indeed, but the actual point is that a malicious user can create such a
directory to make _you_ lose when handling it.

Mario
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http://parenteses.org/mario



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