FEATURE REQ: safe % expansion via new syntax

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:42:14AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> if anyone's proposing changes to these, please bear in mind that i need to
> have the functions and all uses of those functions work across process
> boundaries (e.g smbd creates it; smbd and netlogond, spoolssd etc read
> it).

Yes.

Particularly I want to make the use of various parameters that end up
calling smbrun() safe.

So far as I know ALL of those parameters are implemented in smbd only
(as they are SMB-specific) and, specifically, 'print command' and the
open/close command parameters call string_sub() directly with values
that are too dynamic to ever store in a TDB.

Hmmmm.

For an immediate solution I guess the best thing to do is to include a
function called, say, safe_quote() that takes a string and a buffer and
copies to the buffer a shell-quoted version of the given string, then
update 'print command' and Andy Bakun's open/close command patch to
safe_quote() the filename passed by the client prior to calling
string_sub().

For the long term the whole % token system will have to be modified as
Luke suggests, though %f will probably never end up in a TDB.

> luke


Nico
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