[luatex] io.popen security (was: slow io.popen)

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Tue Jan 29 18:04:44 CET 2013


Am 29.01.2013 10:02, schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

> On my system,
> 
>    \directlua { assert(io.popen('rm -f whatever')) }
> 
> produces:
> 
>    ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: Command execution disabled
>    via shell_escape='p'
> 
> as it should.

Same here with luatex.  It is actually texlua, which executes arbitrary
shell commands.  Is it intentional that luatex and texlua don't behave
identical wrt shell commands in popen?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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