Re: wine/programs/wcmd wcmdmain.c

[Alexandre Julliard]

Sylvain Petreolle  writes:
> With this patch, a script can ask : ping something.
> Even if ping.exe is not there, CreateProcess will allow /bin/ping.
> This will work, as it's found and allowed for a normal unix user.

There is no way to prevent a Windows application running under Wine
from doing everything a Unix application could do. Even if you don't
let CreateProcess launch Unix programs the Windows app can always do a
straight system call. If you want to avoid inadvertently running
/bin/ping you can make sure /bin is not accessible from a DOS
drive. But you can't prevent a malicious app from doing it.