Hi Paul! On Mo, 09 Sep 2019, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Sadly the testsuite generates a filename with /./ in it... > > From my point of view ../.././data/arrows.eps is a valid file name on > > Unix systems, so gs should accept it. > > > > Is there a good reason to reject this file name in gs? Then we have > > to change the testsuite, otherwise I'd suggest fixing the behavior of > > gs. > I'm not sure, but does https://bugs.debian.org/bug=939044#75 help you? I don't think so. If I understand the above right, it's about a PS file including or opening some external files, which may result in some security issues. Here it's not the problem of a PS file including some external file. The problem is, that gs doesn't like to open ../.././data/arrows.eps given by command line directly. This may be triggered by some security improvement of gs, but from my point of view ../.././data/arrows.eps is a valid file name and so gs should convert this file and not fail on it. In the meantime I prepared a patch for fig2dev to work around this issue (not published), but I'm still not sure, weather the behavior of gs is simply broken here and will lead to fail in other situations, too. So I delay publishing my workaround, since I think that gs should fix the issue (or explain me, why it's behaving correct). Greetings Roland
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