[darcs-devel] [patch919] Add rts flag to cabal
Ganesh Sittampalam
bugs at darcs.net
Sat Oct 20 17:23:57 UTC 2012
Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:
"accepted-pending-tests" means "this patch has been reviewed so if the tests pass with
this patch applied then it's ok to push to reviewed". A lot of patches can languish in
this state for a while because they depend on other patches that haven't yet been
reviewed.
FYI, RTS flags are disabled by GHC by default because there's a possibility of them
being an unexpected security hole - you can use them to write to an arbitrary file on
disk, which could be a problem for a binary that is being used in a security-sensitive
setting such as being a CGI script. In the case of darcs we couldn't quite convince
ourselves that this wouldn't be an issue - e.g. it gets invoked remotely to apply
patches - so the current position is to play it safe. I'm not really confident it's the
right approach though.
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