Re: Patch for review: "Handle InnoDB tables in copy-backup.py"

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 22:19 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 23:50 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> 
> > And in case anybody creates a database name with metacharacters for the 
> > filesystem (like "." or "/" or ".."), we should normalize and check 
> > whether we have left the directory just for security reasons. If so, 
> > bail out. Note, that I don't know if it's even possible to create such a 
> > database with MySQL. [...]

[..]

> I originally got working without using python-MySQL, but if the
> hand-escaping for popen() didn't pass muster, I don't think it would
> have gotten past review here either :-)
> 
> Attached patch is incremental on my last patch.

I went ahead and pushed both patches - wanted to get it in a few backups
before the new bugzilla went live so we can get some testing.

Also installed MySQL-python on drawable (through puppet) and button.

- Owen