Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> It is good to be cautious. Big thumbs up. But what exactly are you worried
> about? Do you think your users might enter something Evil and break their
> own system? I'd suggest that's not your problem, and besides, it is hard
> to think of anything they could do with eval that they couldn't do by
> exiting your app and running something Evil in their shell prompt.
yeah, I guess when you think about it, there really isn't a problem. I figured
that
someone might accidentally do damage to their system with an unchecked eval.
>
> Are you running this script as a cgi script? Then remote users might use
> eval to break your system, and you are right to avoid it.
no I am not, but it is good to know how to deal with it in this case too.
thanks!
bb
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