Re: ANNOUNCE: Inline 0.23 (Mix Perl and C w/o XS)

[Sam Tregar]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
> > No.  The documentation states that the compilation is done only when the
> > source file is out of date with the companion object file.  As I
> > understand it, Inline has some kind of limited automatic make ability.
> 
> So it is a security issue then as it needs somewhere to cache these
> object files, and anyone must be able to do it.

The place it stores its objects is configurable, so it's only a security
problem if you make it one!  I'd say its more a configuration problem
since you need to carefully think about where that place should be and set
the appropriate permissions.

-sam