System queries with Lua: l3sys-query
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Thu Mar 7 00:13:43 CET 2024
If openin_any is not "a" then clearly you can't read dot files but
it isn't clear if they have to be excluded from a directory listing.
I guess I did not think about this when reviewing Nicola's texosquery
Java program. It does report dot files (using an escape syntax, but that
doesn't matter);
$ mkdir .foo
$ touch .bar
$ texosquery-jre8 -i , .
\fdot bar,\fdot foo
Therefore I conclude l3sys-query does not need to exclude dot entries
from its output.
I can't envision any particular security problem with doing so, and
clearly it has not been exploited in practice, in any case. --thanks, karl.
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