[Pan-users] Re: ANN: 0.113 "0.113 is one of Nakata's favorites"

[walt]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:43:11 -1000, Kevin Brammer wrote:
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> Nevermind.  I guess the moral of the story is rm -rf ~/.pan2 after
> each build.  Once I did that, no more crashes.

Well, maybe.  But...

Anyone who follows internet security problems will be aware that
'insufficient validation of user input' is responsible for a great
many software vulnerabilities.

Should a locally-stored config file be considered 'user input' in
this context?

In the short-run, clearly not:   Charles has enough trouble on his
hands just fixing major bugs without adding extra code to validate
the contents of pan's own config files.

But, in the long run it's a problem which definitely needs to be
solved.  This is an ideal research project for some eager computer
science grad student.  (Heh, maybe even a ten-year-old, nowadays!)