The following eggs in SVN use ##sys#expand-home-path, since this functionality is useful but was never exported as an official API:
openssl osxattr posix-extras sql-de-lite sqlite3 vfs To be fair, three of those are mine. Jim On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: > Hi John, > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:01:45 -0400 John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > >> Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit: >> >>> b. Drop ##sys#expand-home-path. Do not implicitly expand ~ and >>> environment variables in pathnames. Provide a procedure to expand ~ >>> in pathnames. That's what this patch implements. >> >> I suggest: >> >> b2. Keep ##sys#expand-home-path, but make it the identity function. >> Provide a procedure to expand ~ in pathnames. >> >> That way, the security problem is removed, but we do not have to find >> and fix every reference to ##sys#expand-home-path. > > IMO, in this case we should just remove ##sys#expand-home-path, since it > is an internal procedure. Users should not rely on stability of the > internal API. By keeping ##sys#expand-home-path as an identity > procedure, we'd be just polluting the core and adding a useless > procedure call to every procedure of the filesystem API. > > Best wishes. > Mario > -- > http://parenteses.org/mario > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-hackers mailing list > Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
