Hi there.
I'm Ted. I was born on August 22nd, 1979. I went to the [Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]? in "lovely" [Terre Haute]?, Indiana. I tend to edit pages very sporadically, usually only when I for one reason or another think the page tends toward large amounts of falsehood. Such editing is typically of CS'y pages, such as Lisp and the like.
My home page: http://oconnor.cx/
/InProgress
/TeXinbox
Hi Ted! Nice to see you here. Welcome to Wikipedia! --
LMS
Hi Larry. Thanks! Happy to be here.
Ted officially rocks by the way. -H
Begorra Ed !! Sorry to see an alterate future. Bono anyone ?
Ed, do you think it would be possible to integrate your
TeX hack with the wiki code so that one could type
$\int_0^x t^2 dt$ and get an integral right away, in png produced by
TeX? --
AxelBoldt
- Possible? Yes. Going to happen? No. There are just way too many security issues that arise when we let the wiki software evaluate arbitrary code.
- With "arbitrary code" you mean "arbitrary (La)TeX" code? If so, are there really any dangerous TeX commands? Can you access the file system from withing TeX? --AxelBoldt
- Yes, yes, and yes.
- Ok, I wasn't aware of that. \openout seems to be the problem. I just found a discussion of the very issue at http://math.albany.edu:8800/hm/emj/1995/msg00125.html. But I wonder if running the TeX interpreter under some nobody user in a tmp directory, using chroot(1) so that it can't see anything outside the sandbox, wouldn't solve the problem. Or can you also execute programs from within TeX, or access the net? --AxelBoldt
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