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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/texosquery/README.md b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/texosquery/README.md index ce37682eddb..b1f46dff001 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/texosquery/README.md +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/texosquery/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ Cross-platform Java application to query OS information designed for use in TeX's shell escape mechanism. +## Licence + +This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. +See http://www.ctan.org/license/lppl1.3 +for the details of that license. + +Copyright 2016-2020 Nicola Talbot + +## Description + The application can query the following: - locale information @@ -320,8 +330,8 @@ reading file information won't work if read access is forbidden by In addition to obeying `openin_any`, the file listing actions (such as `--list`) for the JRE7 and 8 variants also prohibit listing the -contents outside of the current working directory's path. This means -that you can't, for example, list the contents of `..` (the current +contents outside of the current working directory's path even if `openin_any=a`. +This means that you can't, for example, list the contents of `..` (the current working directory's parent) nor can you try walking the entire file system. The `--walk` action additionally won't descend hidden directories. This extra restriction is designed to prevent malicious @@ -410,4 +420,3 @@ Source on GitHub: https://github.com/nlct/texosquery Author Home Page: http://www.dickimaw-books.com/ -License: LPPL 1.3+ |