Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> writes: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:50:22PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: >> What if the user renames their plink to ssh? > > Even worse: what if someone with a non-Windows operating system has > some command named `plink' installed in his PATH, where that `plink' > does something really evil[tm]? > > IMHO, this should be made configurable in some way (using the > environment), but darcs should NOT run arbitrary commands at runtime > to detect which implementation of ssh is installed.
Technically, it is configurable already: you set PATH or DARCS_SSH such that ssh refers to a wrapper script which mangles its arguments, then calls the real SSH client. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
