Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Some tricky, but useful functions ... for discussion

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:05:50PM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 19:52, Richard Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:37:25AM +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> > > >   let filename = output_tempfile data in
> > > >   let in_chan = Unix.open_process_in ("identify " ^ filename) in
> > > 
> > > This is very bad form: What if filename contains shell
> > > metacharacters or spaces?
> > 
> > 'output_tempfile' is guaranteed not to contain shell metacharacters or
> > spaces, so it's OK.
> 
> guarranteed by which ISO standard?

I wrote output_tempfile, so guaranteed by my 'Jones' standard.

Rich.

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