On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:17, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Time to finish this one and ensconce the API into the embedding interface.
That reminds me, I was reading P6&PE yesterday, and I came across a scary bit on loading of shared libraries. The statement was made that Parrot would search the current directory first. Perhaps this was an over-simplification, but if not, PLEASE, re-consider. Security implications aside (and they're huge), Parrot should probably be searching its installation area (possibly overridden by an environment variable) followed by whatever system path (e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ldconfig or whatever your OS uses) is given to Parrot externally, so as not to modify the behavior of a program based on the current directory of the user running it. -- â 781-324-3772 â [EMAIL PROTECTED] â http://www.ajs.com/~ajs
