Review Request 129844: KRun: deprecate runUrl() in favor of runUrl() with RunFlags

[Elvis Angelaccio]

> On Jan. 17, 2017, 7:51 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > enums instead of bools in APIs are good.
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> > It's funny to read "I want to change the default value [....] but the new method can't have a default value", but it actually makes sense because the old method is deprecated, so anyone porting away from it will have to set the flags.
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> > BTW the default was true because the original use case was filemanagers (and krunner), which do want to run executables. But indeed in most apps it's probably not a good idea.

I wanted to ask about the `asn` argument but then I forgot to.
There is a comment `// TODO KF6: deprecate/remove` near the asn argument of runService(). Does that apply also to runUrl()? If yes, should we remove it now?


- Elvis


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On Jan. 15, 2017, 8:46 p.m., Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 15, 2017, 8:46 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, Albert Astals Cid and David Faure.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> CVE-2017-5330 shows that `runExecutables = true` can be a dangerous
> default for the runUrl() function. We cannot change the default value to
> false (while BIC, it would be a change of behavior), so we deprecate the
> current runUrl() function in favor of a new runUrl() with a RunFlags
> argument replacing the `tempFile` and `runExecutables` arguments.
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> This new argument cannot take a default value, otherwise the two
> runUrl() signatures would be ambiguous and existing code
> would not compile.
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> Diffs
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>   src/widgets/krun.h 889642160ad960dd7e43d1c6dad2a6f2133e17bf 
>   src/widgets/krun.cpp d04a4825e5ea696c1072054c39dc11cc9e5c63f5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129844/diff/
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> Testing
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> Builds, tests pass.
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> Thanks,
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> Elvis Angelaccio
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