Subject: Re: [bug#47539] [PATCH 00/28] Add gh and dependencies

From: Jack Hill <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 13:21:50 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Leo Prikler wrote:

> After doing some quick investigations myself, I think the following
> pair of substitute*s might work:
>  (("github.com/cli/safeexec") "os/exec")
>  (("safeexec") "exec")

I happened to be reading the Go blog post about command path security [0]. 
I haven't looked at it very closely, but I'm hopeful that future gh 
versions may be able to get safeexec-like behavior from the Go standard 
library.

[0] https://blog.golang.org/path-security

Best,
Jack