Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/4] Remove ##sys#expand-home-path.

[John Cowan]

Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:

> b. Drop ##sys#expand-home-path.  Do not implicitly expand ~ and
>    environment variables in pathnames.  Provide a procedure to expand ~
>    in pathnames.  That's what this patch implements.

I suggest:

  b2. Keep ##sys#expand-home-path, but make it the identity function.
      Provide a procedure to expand ~ in pathnames.

That way, the security problem is removed, but we do not have to find
and fix every reference to ##sys#expand-home-path.

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