Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 04:59, Martin Schröder wrote:
> The same applies to PostScript: One fixes security holes in the
> interpreter (e.g. GhostScript) and doesn't worry about the
> PostScript files.
Actually, afair, postscript is 'feature complete' on some platforms and
has the ability to muck with filesystems. Having a postscript file nuke
your homedirectory would suck, wouldn't it? I think ghostscript uses a
'safe' mode by default, however.
In any case, lets say one of the scripts decided to use /tmp in a stupid
way... I don't know whats possible in TeX, however.
In any case, I agree with others in this group. Non-free is non-free.
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