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authorgahr <gahr@gahr.ch>2016-03-03 08:34:56 (GMT)
committergahr <gahr@gahr.ch>2016-03-03 08:34:56 (GMT)
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
'\"
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
-'\"
+'\"
.TH "Safe Tcl" n 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
.so man.macros
.BS
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ No knowledge of the file system structure is leaked to the
safe interpreter, because it has access only to a virtualized path
containing tokens. When the safe interpreter requests to source a file, it
uses the token in the virtual path as part of the file name to source; the
-master interpreter transparently
-translates the token into a real directory name and executes the
+master interpreter transparently
+translates the token into a real directory name and executes the
requested operation (see the section \fBSECURITY\fR below for details).
Different levels of security can be selected by using the optional flags
of the commands described below.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ other means, like \fBinterp create\fR \fB\-safe\fR.
\fB::safe::interpConfigure\fR \fIslave\fR ?\fIoptions...\fR?
If no \fIoptions\fR are given, returns the settings for all options for the
named safe interpreter as a list of options and their current values
-for that \fIslave\fR.
+for that \fIslave\fR.
If a single additional argument is provided,
it will return a list of 2 elements \fIname\fR and \fIvalue\fR where
\fIname\fR is the full name of that option and \fIvalue\fR the current value
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ safe::interpConfigure $i0 \-delete {foo bar} \-statics 0
.RE
.TP
\fB::safe::interpDelete\fR \fIslave\fR
-Deletes the safe interpreter and cleans up the corresponding
+Deletes the safe interpreter and cleans up the corresponding
master interpreter data structures.
If a \fIdeleteHook\fR script was specified for this interpreter it is
evaluated before the interpreter is deleted, with the name of the
@@ -175,26 +175,26 @@ ERROR for slave interp10 : /foo/bar/init.tcl: no such file or directory
.CE
.RE
.SS OPTIONS
-The following options are common to
-\fB::safe::interpCreate\fR, \fB::safe::interpInit\fR,
+The following options are common to
+\fB::safe::interpCreate\fR, \fB::safe::interpInit\fR,
and \fB::safe::interpConfigure\fR.
-Any option name can be abbreviated to its minimal
+Any option name can be abbreviated to its minimal
non-ambiguous name.
Option names are not case sensitive.
-.TP
+.TP
\fB\-accessPath\fR \fIdirectoryList\fR
This option sets the list of directories from which the safe interpreter
can \fBsource\fR and \fBload\fR files.
If this option is not specified, or if it is given as the
empty list, the safe interpreter will use the same directories as its
master for auto-loading.
-See the section \fBSECURITY\fR below for more detail about virtual paths,
+See the section \fBSECURITY\fR below for more detail about virtual paths,
tokens and access control.
.TP
\fB\-statics\fR \fIboolean\fR
This option specifies if the safe interpreter will be allowed
to load statically linked packages (like \fBload {} Tk\fR).
-The default value is \fBtrue\fR :
+The default value is \fBtrue\fR :
safe interpreters are allowed to load statically linked packages.
.TP
\fB\-noStatics\fR
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ to load statically linked packages.
\fB\-nested\fR \fIboolean\fR
This option specifies if the safe interpreter will be allowed
to load packages into its own sub-interpreters.
-The default value is \fBfalse\fR :
+The default value is \fBfalse\fR :
safe interpreters are not allowed to load packages into
their own sub-interpreters.
.TP
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ their own sub-interpreters.
This option is a convenience shortcut for \fB\-nested true\fR and
thus specifies the safe interpreter will be allowed
to load packages into its own sub-interpreters.
-.TP
+.TP
\fB\-deleteHook\fR \fIscript\fR
When this option is given a non-empty \fIscript\fR, it will be
evaluated in the master with the name of
@@ -286,17 +286,17 @@ This virtual path system is maintained in the master interpreter for each safe
interpreter created by \fB::safe::interpCreate\fR or initialized by
\fB::safe::interpInit\fR and
the path maps tokens accessible in the safe interpreter into real path
-names on the local file system thus preventing safe interpreters
+names on the local file system thus preventing safe interpreters
from gaining knowledge about the
structure of the file system of the host on which the interpreter is
executing.
The only valid file names arguments
for the \fBsource\fR and \fBload\fR aliases provided to the slave
-are path in the form of
+are path in the form of
\fB[file join \fItoken filename\fB]\fR (i.e. when using the
native file path formats: \fItoken\fB/\fIfilename\fR
on Unix and \fItoken\fB\e\fIfilename\fR on Windows),
-where \fItoken\fR is representing one of the directories
+where \fItoken\fR is representing one of the directories
of the \fIaccessPath\fR list and \fIfilename\fR is
one file in that directory (no sub directories access are allowed).
.PP
@@ -323,25 +323,25 @@ list will be assigned a token that will be set in
the slave \fBauto_path\fR and the first element of that list will be set as
the \fBtcl_library\fR for that slave.
.PP
-If the access path argument is not given or is the empty list,
+If the access path argument is not given or is the empty list,
the default behavior is to let the slave access the same packages
-as the master has access to (Or to be more precise:
+as the master has access to (Or to be more precise:
only packages written in Tcl (which by definition cannot be dangerous
as they run in the slave interpreter) and C extensions that
-provides a _SafeInit entry point). For that purpose, the master's
-\fBauto_path\fR will be used to construct the slave access path.
+provides a _SafeInit entry point). For that purpose, the master's
+\fBauto_path\fR will be used to construct the slave access path.
In order that the slave successfully loads the Tcl library files
(which includes the auto-loading mechanism itself) the \fBtcl_library\fR will be
-added or moved to the first position if necessary, in the
+added or moved to the first position if necessary, in the
slave access path, so the slave
\fBtcl_library\fR will be the same as the master's (its real
-path will still be invisible to the slave though).
+path will still be invisible to the slave though).
In order that auto-loading works the same for the slave and
the master in this by default case, the first-level
sub directories of each directory in the master \fBauto_path\fR will
also be added (if not already included) to the slave access path.
You can always specify a more
-restrictive path for which sub directories will never be searched by
+restrictive path for which sub directories will never be searched by
explicitly specifying your directory list with the \fB\-accessPath\fR flag
instead of relying on this default mechanism.
.PP