Re: security trap mode

Olaf Weber wrote:

>The documentation is mainly in texmf.cnf, I fear.
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Yes, thanks, I found that though, after knowing from the code where to look.
However, the checking code is incomplete and does not work on windows 
(*). Would you be interested in a patch that adds proper checking for 
the windows platform?

>As far as preventing a TeX run for going off into a loop, you really
>should use whatever methods the OS provides to keep runaway processes
>in check, as these are much more reliable, and much more lightweight,
>than messing with TeX's inner loop.
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That's what I'm doing now and it seems to be working fine on unix so far.

(*) for example "C:\bla\blub" is considered local.

Thanks,
johannes