[bug #61423] [libgroff] allow paths in "name" directive of font description file, restoring historical groff behavior

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #61423 (project groff):

                  Status:             In Progress => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #4:

Hmm, interestingly, the change being complained about made an _unintended_
directory traversal pretty unlikely.

So in addressing bug #61324 I'll probably need to muck with the file opening
logic for fonts.

It would be _easier_ to characterize the scenario Dave describes as simply
unsupported, and invite him to use a meaningless directive name or a '#'
comment to store the qualified file name instead.

What do you think, Dave?


$ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8 EXPERIMENTS/the-word-is-evil.roff
troff:
/home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build/font/devutf8/../../../../../../../../../home/branden/bogusfont-1.23.0:1:
error: font description file name
'../../../../../../../../../home/branden/bogusfont-1.23.0' does not match
'name' argument 'bogusfont-1.23.0'
troff:EXPERIMENTS/the-word-is-evil.roff:1: error: cannot load font
'../../../../../../../../../home/branden/bogusfont-1.23.0' for mounting
troff:EXPERIMENTS/the-word-is-evil.roff:2: warning: no font mounted at
position 5
WORD


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