Re: lynx-dev 2.8.2dev.16 patch 1 - Keys, tab changes

[dickey]

> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > > Doug has been too busy... I had these changes ready, then he sent  
> > > his cleanup patch.  His changes are now included here, hopefully  
> > > correctly.  So don't try to use both this and his patch together.  
> >  
> > ok (I'll still compare, just so I know what's going on) 
>  
> Hmm, there is one little change, unrelated to the other stuff, that 
> slipped in in LYUtils.c.  I didn't really mean to send that, but... 

ok (I've gotten most of the changes in for dev.17, will be investigating
the ssl patch tonight and try to get dev.17 out in the morning).
  
> * Unix: Dont accept HOME variable with valid if it does not begin with 
>   a slash. 
>  
> Maybe it makes some simple attempts to exploit buffer overflows more 
> visible, but could be easily avoided.  So it may not be too useful. 
> Could there ever be a good reason for having a HOME set that does not 
> start with "/"? 

not afaik for Unix (VMS and DOS don't begin with '/', and $HOME is useful
there).
  
>   Klaus 


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