POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : WARNING: #exec and safety : Re: WARNING: #exec and safety Server Time
30 Jul 2024 16:12:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WARNING: #exec and safety  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 20 Oct 1999 10:57:23
Message: <380DD81D.C1D7CE0F@peak.edu.ee>
Yes, yes. Of course. I just don't think this functionality should be excluded
because of the (not so serious) security risk.
Some measures mihgt be prudent. Perhaps have the user explicitly allow the usage
of #exec with a command line switch, which _cannot_ be invoked via an ini file.

Margus

Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   The fact that the possibility of a malicious file is very small, that
> doesn't mean that we shouldn't take into account some security issues.
> Let's do it before something happens. It's better than doing it afterwards.
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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