On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:05:27AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Old MacOS versions seem to forbid ":" (colon):https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/173529/when-did-the-colon-character-become-an-allowed-character-in-the-filesystem But see also https://stackoverflow.com/a/31976060/3782797
Hmmm... if the first link is correct I don't think this is something to be concerned about. Wikipedia says "Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001".
It sounds like there may be (or have been) a distinction between native app behavior vs unix/shell on MacOS. But I'm not in a position to test that.
Cameron (or anyone else on MacOS), can you confirm ':' is allowed for files on your system, especially those created from a shell or launched by Mutt via mailcap?
There may be security issues with some programs. The following one is fixed, but there may still be similar ones around for programs written in Perl. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920269
Wow! Well that's just terrifying. I'm pretty sure I've taken advantage of that shortcut in the past and had no idea it would re-evaluate the filename. A very good argument to keep the sanitizer in place. Thank you again.
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