[tex-live] Re: paranoid file handling

[Hans Hagen]

Olaf Weber wrote:
> Hans Hagen writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi (probably Olaf),
>>When openin_any = p we get:
> 
> 
>>pdfetex: Not writing to
>>/somepath/www.pragma-pod.com/someplace/somefile (openin_any = p).
> 
> 
>>The message is kind of wrong, since it should be "Not reading from".
> 
> 
> Hm.  Need to check that.
> 
> 
>>I wonder why this file is not read since it's not something
> 
> 
>>.
>>./
>>../
>>whatever/../../../
> 
> 
>>or: shouldn't period prevention be limited to the occurence of . and
>>.. path segments only? Nowadays paths with periods in it are rather
>>common.
> 
> 
> The period is not the reason: you've specified an absolute path for
> which TEXINPUTS doesn't contain a "root".

Then what is the way to add something to texinput without patching texmf.cnf?

Maybe we need something --extrainputs={abc,def,gef}//  which is internally 
prepended to the texinputs var of the specific progname; a feature like that is 
needed in order to be able to use resources that are not present in the 
texmftree but still have some of the security provided by paranoid inclusion, 
something like

   -include-directory=

in miktex.

Hans


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