Bug 91500

Summary: xdg-open may expand %f as relative path
Product: Portland Reporter: Davide Del Zompo <gino.corazzi>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Attachments: xdg-open: expand %[fFuU] as full path

Description Davide Del Zompo 2015-07-29 08:51:43 UTC 
Created attachment 117440 [details]
xdg-open: expand %[fFuU] as full path

While trying to setup urxvt as inode/directory handler (Exec=urxvt -cd %f) I noticed that the %f field code may be expanded as a relative path, causing urxvt to fail.

In wider terms, some applications could have problems dealing with relative paths, while absolute paths should be "safe" for anything.

I can't foresee any issue introduced by the attached diff, but any comment is welcome.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2015-07-29 12:43:40 UTC 
I vaguely recall we wanted to be able to support relative paths for some reason(s), but don't remember right now.

Why can't urxvt handle relative paths?
Comment 2 Per Olofsson 2015-09-20 06:03:26 UTC 
I'd say this is a bug in rxvt. There are almost no programs that can't handle relative paths AFAIK.

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