On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:58:07PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >What is the danger you see in allowing the 8-bit data?  If it is
> >a printable character for the user running finger, I see no danger.
> >Please answer that question, so I can understand better.
> 
> 	you seem to assume that both ends agree about their idea about
> 	multibyte encoding.  that's not possible.  for instance, if fingerd

No, the idea is simply and no more than to avoid security
compromises through receiving terminal control characters.

Maybe !iscntrl() or something like that would be better for this
purpose, however.


-- 
Soren