Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Simple Search problems

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
> At 10:54 PM 2/1/2002 +0000, Nick wrote:
> >
> >I think I fixed it a bit, there were some odds and ends from the
> >old chdir taint botch still lying around.
> >
> >If detaint_dirname is killing the script it should be telling you
> >the name of the directory it doesn't like.
>
> It was returning an empty string...
> also, should the script die if it hits a bad filename, or just skip it?
>

I think Nick and myself are of the same opinion with respect to having the
program die if the detainting conditions aren't met - I think it should be
the responsibility of the caller to make this non-fatal (using eval) if
this is desireable.

/J\
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