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Jeroen Demeyer  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 4:20 pm
From: Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:20:40 +0200
Local: Thurs, Oct 11 2012 4:20 pm
Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Python security problem
On 2012-10-11 22:14, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> I don't think things like permissions and
> whether a directory is "safe" should be, in as much as it is possible,
> part of a language spec however.

That's quite true.  However, the alternative of completely changing the
spec would break so much that it's not a good idea (or maybe for Python
4?...).  I believe that my patch breaks very little existing code while
still being secure by default.  So I think it's the optimal middle ground.

Jeroen.


 
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