On 9/20/06, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:43:11 -1000, Kevin Brammer wrote:
...
> Nevermind. I guess the moral of the story is rm -rf ~/.pan2 after
> each build. Once I did that, no more crashes.
Well, maybe. But...
Anyone who follows internet security problems will be aware that
'insufficient validation of user input' is responsible for a great
many software vulnerabilities.
Should a locally-stored config file be considered 'user input' in
this context?
In the short-run, clearly not: Charles has enough trouble on his
hands just fixing major bugs without adding extra code to validate
the contents of pan's own config files.
But, in the long run it's a problem which definitely needs to be
solved. This is an ideal research project for some eager computer
science grad student. (Heh, maybe even a ten-year-old, nowadays!)
We may be talking about two different things. I was referring to my
other email about the crashing when deleting headers while they were
updating. I'm not sure which part of that generated your train of
thought. :\
I just found that when I compiled .113, I had to delete my .pan2
directory, otherwise I suffered the same effects as .112. Maybe it
was some pan-generated config file, or a corrupted cache of some
sort...no idea.
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