Re: [PATCH 1/2] Custom low-level merge driver support.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 18, 2007, 10:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704181253350.12094@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4625F4AD.5CDDC502@eudaptics.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > +       interpolate(cmdbuf, sizeof(cmdbuf), cmd, table, 3);
> > +
> > +       memset(&child, 0, sizeof(child));
> > +       child.argv = args;
> > +       args[0] = "sh";
> > +       args[1] = "-c";
> > +       args[2] = cmdbuf;
> > +       args[3] = NULL;
> 
> If I read the code correctly, there does not happen any shell quoting
> anywhere; hence, this shell invocation is dangerous.

AFAICT the files used are all temporary files named ".merge_file_xxxx" in the current directory, so there should not be a chance to have spaces or other weird characters in the files.

Ciao, Dscho