the importance of using safe interprocess communication

Ben Escoto bescoto@stanford.edu
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:07:50 -0800


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>>>>> "JH" == Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:54:31 -0800

  JH> Its documented in the source, and look at it this way, if they
  JH> ever change this behavior python becomes immediately
  JH> unacceptable for writing any kind of secure script that must
  JH> play well with others.  I doubt very much they will sacrifice
  JH> this.
 
Ok, I replaced os.popen and os.system for popen2.Popen3 and
os.spawnvp.  Changes will appear next version.


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