Bug#51586: Please Reopen 51586 ("secure" mode in dvips should be the default)

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@nsx.pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi all,

I sent the following mail about a month ago and got no
response yet.

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Bug#51586: Please Reopen 51586 ("secure" mode in dvips should be the default)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:14:05 +0900

> > > It means that if I send someone a DVI file, and they view it with xdvi
> > > it looks ok (because xdvi ignores most \specials) but if I have a
> > > \special that says "rm -rf $HOME", and they go to print it, kaboom.
> 
> Then I tried to make patch.

Nobody investigated the patch?  If this is a really security 
problem (it almost centainly be so) I wish some fix will be done
as soon as possible.

Of course it might be another fix if the patch is problematic.
(Do I misunderstand something?)

Thanks in advance,		2000.6.21

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.