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Re: fix for source includes in gendoc.sh for future consideration


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: fix for source includes in gendoc.sh for future consideration
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:43:41 +0100

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I have attched an updated version with the changes in indentation.

Applied. Thanks.

> >   - What's the point of the 'eval'? Can't you get rid of it? And if not,
> >     then make it safer by writing
> >       cmd="\\$SETLANG \\$MAKEINFO \\$commonarg --trace-includes \"\\$base\""
> 
> I am not competent enough to know what to do here, I just mimicked the
> other MAKEINFO invokations.

Indeed: if there is a problem with this new 'eval' occurrence, there is also
a problem with the existing 'eval's.

> I didn't as I think that it should not be changed at that occasion, but
> rather all the $MAKEINFO invokations should be changed consistently.

Agreed. Let's hope that it's not an exploitable vulnerability.

Bruno






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