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author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2019-05-06 21:29:05 +0300 |
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committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2019-05-06 21:29:05 +0300 |
commit | 8bd32787b04cd30790ccca2c054a74f7f81cf5c9 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 8c9b14f6..80650513 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -4181,10 +4181,13 @@ representation of the program. @cindex @option{-S} option @cindex @option{--sandbox} option @cindex sandbox mode +@cindex @code{ARGV} array Disable the @code{system()} function, input redirections with @code{getline}, output redirections with @code{print} and @code{printf}, and dynamic extensions. +Also, disallow adding filenames to @code{ARGV} that were +not there when @command{gawk} started running. This is particularly useful when you want to run @command{awk} scripts from questionable sources and need to make sure the scripts can't access your system (other than the specified input @value{DF}). @@ -17274,7 +17277,7 @@ sequences of random numbers. However, nothing requires that an considerably better than @code{rand()}, to produce random numbers. From @value{PVERSION} 4.1.4, courtesy of Nelson H.F.@: Beebe, @command{gawk} uses the Bayes-Durham shuffle buffer algorithm which considerably extends -the period the random number generator, and eliminates short-range and +the period of the random number generator, and eliminates short-range and long-range correlations that might exist in the original generator.} Often random integers are needed instead. Following is a user-defined function @@ -28421,7 +28424,7 @@ When called this way, @command{gawk} ``pretty-prints'' the program into @quotation NOTE Once upon a time, the @option{--pretty-print} option would also run -your program. This is is no longer the case. +your program. This is no longer the case. @end quotation @cindex profiling, pretty-printing, difference with @@ -38928,7 +38931,7 @@ Anders Wallin helped keep the VMS port going for several years. @item @cindex Gordon, Assaf -Assaf Gordon contributed the code to implement the +Assaf Gordon contributed the initial code to implement the @option{--sandbox} option. @item |