On Sat, 2010-06-26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <slrni297ec.1m5.grahn+n...@frailea.sa.invalid>, Jorgen Grahn > wrote: > >> I thought it was well-known that the solution is *not* to try to >> sanitize the input -- it's to switch to an interface which doesn't >> involve generating an intermediate executable. In the Python example, >> that would be something like os.popen2(['zcat', '-f', '--', untrusted]). > > That???s what I mean. Why do people consider input sanitization so hard?
I'm not sure you understood me correctly, because I advocate *not* doing input sanitization. Hard or not -- I don't want to know, because I don't want to do it. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
