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Re:Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or ... by TylerE on Sunday September 22, 2019 @09:07PM (#21045159)
Probing at options sounds dangerous. There is no guarantee at all that attempted invocations won't change state.
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Re:Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or ... by sunebeck on Sunday September 22, 2019 @09:34PM (#21045247)
I wouldn't wanna let it probe 'rm' :D

Perhaps the probing could happen in a VM / container image which would reset after each invocation.

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Re:Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or ... by gojomo on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:11PM (#21051709)
You'd of course do it inside a controlled environment, via virtualization or similar technologies which let you monitor, veto, or roll-back anything the analyzed program does. (And if it's malicious/sneaky enough to escape that, then it wasn't safe to use in a manual fashion, either.)
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