On 2025-10-31 10:14:06 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-31): > > > But that's potentially insecure as this could yield arbitrary > > > escape sequences to the terminal, which could do bad things. > > That has been disabled for eons. > > Some of us still have terminal(s) that are "eons" old.
And one can make xterm on trixie (not that old) crash: xterm -k8 -e 'printf "\x9a\x85\x08"; sleep 2' -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
