System queries with Lua: l3sys-query

[Joseph Wright]

On 06/03/2024 23:13, Karl Berry wrote:
>      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.

I'd already adjusted the script ... but can back out. I'll see what
David thinks :)

Joseph