Re: [PATCH] fixes svn's chdir before invoking $EDITOR for commit log message

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:03:11AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
[snip]
> If we really think this is a problem, we could write a function
> svn_path_dangerous_p() that simply returns true if a path is "funny"
> in the client environment (perhaps it should be apr_path_dangerous_p,
> but whatever). When any such path is involved in the commit, we'd
> refuse to pop up an editor, and insist that -F or -m be used instead.
[snip]

If you're going to do this, rather have a "apr_path_safe_p" function.
It's much easier to test whether a path is safe than all the situations
in which it might be dangerous.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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