Bug #9074: Doc promotes inadequate way to sanitize a filename

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: zzak (zzak _)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.0.0
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN

[cphoenix (Chris Phoenix)]

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/drb/rdoc/DRb.html
also http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/drb/rdoc/DRb.html

The "server" example for the "Logger" contains these lines:
# make the filename safe, then declare it to be so
fname = name.gsub(/[./]/, "_").untaint

On Windows, backslash is a separator character. The above gsub does not remove backslash.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Category set to doc
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to zzak (zzak _)

Thanks for the report!

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r43632.
Chris, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• lib/drb/drb.rb: [DOC] promote better windows-safe filename regular
  expression in DRb Logger example. Reported by Chris Pheonix
  [Bug #9074]