I have been using a wrapper around gs that sets both -P- -dSAFER.
That seems to work fine for viewing PS files, but does NOT allow
gv to work for PDFs: the (first?) invoked gs cannot have either of
those "security options" when attempting "gv some.pdf".

As with PS files, "gv /tmp/some.pdf" first does "chdir /tmp" then
invokes gs, which is rather unsafe without -P-.

I slightly wonder about the writing of the tmp file
  open("/tmp/gv_random_some.pdf.tmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666)
from within gs (no O_EXCL so would follow a symlink allowing clobber).

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   p...@maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia



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