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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org