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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdegraphics/kpdf/kpdf [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-09-14 20:01:31
Message-ID: 200409142201.32197.faure () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 14 September 2004 21:56, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> What problem do you have with it?
> 
> I ask something along the lines of
> 
> "Do you want to execute %1" where %1 is the command plus the arguments
> 
> I don't see any problem with that. Is the user who decides if he wants to 
> execute the program or not.

And what should my mother answer to "Do you want to execute rm -rf $HOME" ?

You have not answered "there is no legitimate use for this feature". Why should a PDF
run any kind of command on my system, even after asking me??

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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