RE: [Nautilus-list] Scripts: standard outputs??

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

that's exactly the kind of discussion I would need to have with people
before I go and invrest my time and energy into a big security whole
:)  I'm pretty uneducated on these types of security issues, how difficult
would it be to make sure there can be no buffer overflow?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Galton, Simon wrote:

> Named pipes sounds like a better idea, and they would be truly useful -- 
> I'm a script-maniac and would like to take advantage of this kind of 
> functionality -- but all I could really think about as I read this was
> the potential for misuse as output from scripts is piped into a buffer
> in your filemanager for display purposes...
> 
> I can see the headlines now, "First buffer-overrun bash virus written as
> Nautilus script".  
> 
> S
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Steiner [mailto:joschi eds org]
> Sent: Wednesday July 11, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: Simon A Watts
> Cc: nautilus-list lists eazel com
> Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] Scripts: standard outputs??
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Simon A Watts wrote:
> 
> > For that matter, if there where pseudo devices for components (eg, 
> > /dev/nautilus-statusbar, /dev/nautilus-notes)?  (These are then script 
> > language independant).
> > 
> > Maybe there are -- doc on what Nautilus offers to scripts is pretty
> scarse.
> 
> Yes, I too have gotten into writing some nautilus oriented scripts.  It is
> pretty fun.  Being able to output status info aboutthe script to the
> nautilus status bar would be terrific.  I can't think off the top of my
> head what I would want to send to the notes pane, but I imagine someone
> else could.  
> 
> So, it seems to me that this might be something relatively easily done
> using named pipes... I would be willing to research this a bit if someone
> could give some opinions about if this would be the "nautilus" way of
> handling things. I've been wanting an excuse to get familiar with tthe
> nautilus sources for some time now...
> 
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