Re: [bug-patch] [PATCH] do not validate target name when it is specified on the command line

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> On Thursday 10 February 2011 13:19:54 Jim Meyering wrote:
>> There are several ways to fix it...
>
> That's true about this entire issue ...
>
> In the current heuristic to determine which file to patch [*], we could also
> skip absolute filenames and filenames with ".." components, and maybe warn if
> those filenames would have been chosen.  That way we would end up with the
> usual "File to patch:" question in interactive mode, which would be more in
> line with patch's historic behavior.

Can you give an example in which patch would have
selected a bad name, yet there is still a reason to prompt?

I confess I'm biased: I do not like being prompted, and if there's
anything suspicious about a patch, I'd rather avoid the prompt
altogether.