Steve Langasek wrote:
Hi Jean-Philippe,
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:05:52PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote:
The wine-safe script displays no warning before running an msdos
program.
This is probably due to the fact that on line 57, XMESSAGE is used
before having been defined.
Therefore, any MSDOS executable will be run from a browser with *no*
confirmation from the user.
Why should wine-safe display a warning before running the program? Is
there any reason for this other than the second bug that you filed,
citing incorrect mime handlers?
It should, that's why it's using "wine-safe" and not "wine", to allow
the user to control whether a potential windoze mail virus should be
allowed to run or not. So if wine-safe doesn't display a message, then
that's a bug, which I suppose I'll have to look into.
It's that it shouldn't register itself in mailcap that I'd disagree with:
> The wine package should not register wine-safe in mailcap. I *never*
> expect to run a program when running:
>
> see foobar.bat
I've discussed this before, at which time people gave the opinion that
wine *should* register itself in mailcap. Most users *do* want the likes
of "see funnyanimationfromafriend.exe" and "see cdtraycupholder.exe", at
least the MUA's equivalent, to run the program. At least with suitable
warning first, given that the program *may* be harmful (albeit much less
so than on a real Windows system). If you have the kinds of friends
normal people do, though, then most of the time they do want to run
whatever amusements they get sent.
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