README: important note about security issue in most POSIX scripts.

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Pierre Neidhardt 2013-10-27 20:24:40 +01:00
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* xclip mode will sometimes prevent yanking from working properly.
Scripts
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* All scripts take a strong point at being POSIX. However, there is not POSIX
way (at least to my knowledge) to execute a shell function on the result of a
'find'. One ugly way would be to execute 'sh -c' and write the code as
argument, which is really unmaintainable. Another way is to do the same but
to fetch the code into a variable, which could be done from another file. This
is rather ugly and expansion is hard to control.
For now we assume no input file has newline, which is quite a strong
assumption and not safe at all.
URxvt
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