Aw: Re: New panel in trunk

[Don Christensen]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Fabian Nowak schreef:
> 
>>launcher: ~ is not evaluated, this means executing ~/bin/someappstarter
>>does not work, ~ has to be replaced manually.
> 
> 
> Yeah. The panel is not a shell. If we want this, it is probably easier 
> to execute everything with /bin/sh.

It's also the easiest way to introduce security holes.  You would be
better off just handling a few key things like maybe "~" and ENV var
expansion (without backtick evaluation, of course).  You might be
able to snarf code from bash or somewhere--the beauty of open source,
right?

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
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