Re: pre-announce exmh-2.7.2

The only way out of this rathole is to split exmh-strip
into two phases, the first phase displays the suggested
filename, and the second phase does the extraction.

Be my guest :-) If the current facility is too risky for you, avoid it.
I'll gladly accept modifications for a two-phase exmh-strip.
I suggest that it take an optional third(or more) argument, which is either
 "-prompt"
or the filename(s) to use when extracting the parts.

>>>Robert Elz said:
 >     Date:        Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:32:32 -0800
 >     From:        Brent Welch <[email protected]>
 >     Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
 > 
 >   | file tail protects against filenames with any leading components.
 >   | 
 >   | set filename "foo;echo 'hibrent::0:0::::' >> /etc/passwd;baz"
 >   | 
 >   | file tail $filename
 >   | => passwd;baz
 > 
 > That's useless, the filename could just as easily be
 > 
 > 	"foo;cd ..;cd ..;cd ..;cd ..;cd ..;cd ..;cd etc;echo '...' >>passwd;baz
     "
 > 
 > But, I wouldn't worry about this mind of nonsense, as long as creating 
the
 > file itself does no harm, worrying about what other (broken) applications
 > might do with "unusual" file names is way out of scope.
 > 
 > kre
 > 

--
Brent Welch
Software Architect, Panasas Inc
Delivering the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters

www.panasas.com
[email protected]