[Pkg-erlang-devel] [check-all-the-things] 02/02: Fix erl-tidy command line

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 22:17 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:

> After some thoughts I'd say that since you can't control the input,
> and since erl_tidy:dir will hang for other files too (not only for
> empty ones), you just can't reliably work around this bug. I've
> reported it upstream, and can fix it in the Debian package, though I'm
> not sure if this bug is worth freeze exception.

Thanks! At this late stage of the freeze, probably not, but it might be
worth fixing it in a point release though.

> Sorry, never needed one.

Are there no hairy warts in the Erlang language?

The one I'm aware of is that some of the functions for executing
external processes run things via the shell, which can lead to shell
meta-character injection attacks.

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2014/02/17/pid-preservation-society/

> I'm afraid I don't have much time now for packaging another tool
> (especially the tool I don't use myself).

Understood, hopefully someone else on the Erlang team might ;)

> I see. Very interesting project. And ambitious!

Thanks :)

-- 
bye,
pabs

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