Bug#418788: texlive-base-bin: dvips fails with \includegraphics outside current directory

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> wrote:

> Not in TL 2005, though.  It just says
> `-R'
>      Run securely.  This disables shell command execution in `\special'
>      (via ``', *note Dynamic creation of graphics::) and config files
>      (via the `E' option, *note Configuration file commands::), and
>      opening of any absolute filenames.
>
> Hmmm, I just tried it, and it accepts -R0 and allows the absolute path.
>
> So just to be clear, in TL 2005 there's no way to get the "-R1" behavior
> (absolute pathnames permitted, shell escapes forbidden)?  I can live
> with that until TL 2007 hits testing.

There's no way out on TL 2005.

> Thanks for your help, and for all the great TeX packaging.

You're welcome ;-)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)