Re: [Docutils-develop] reST Includes

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 8:28 am, David Goodger wrote:
> I see.  You want a directive that does the equivalent of
> ``os.system()``, and inserts the output into the document.  Hmmm.
> Seems dangerous to me, to embed system calls in a document.  Perhaps
> that should be left outside of the document, in the user's production
> system (a makefile or a script or whatever)?  Or, the directive could
> be disabled by default and only enabled with an explicit command-line
> option or config file setting.  Even then, an interactive prompt may
> be useful, such as:
>
>     The file.txt document you are processing contains a "system"
>     directive requesting that the ``sudo rm -rf /`` command be
>     executed.  Allow it to execute?  (y/N)

I think that's a reasonable level of precaution.


    Richard