Koji Yokota wrote: > Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > > It's more complicated than that, e.g. > > > > gnuplot> plot "<rm -rf /" > > I could never imagine gnuplot accepts even such expression :o > > > Maybe some solution involving a chroot? > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > The only good solution would be an execution mode of gnuplot that > > disables calls to system. Last time I checked, it did not exist. > > For completeness, it seems there is no other workaround. It is really sad > that we have to give up this feature, as there will be many people who are > using gnuplot together with lyx or latex.
i think that the correct solution would be to request gnuplot devs to add some special parameter from commandline which disallows to execute any external programs, either from system() or the plot "<rm -rf /" issues. pavel
