[Development] A bug or not a bug, that's the question

[Konstantin Tokarev]

05.09.2013, 15:46, "Kurt Pattyn" <pattyn.kurt at gmail.com>:
>>  From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>>  Subject: Re: [Development] A bug or not a bug, that's the question
>>  Date: 26 Aug 2013 17:16:19 GMT+02:00
>>  To: development at qt-project.org
>>  On segunda-feira, 26 de agosto de 2013 13:53:38, Kurt Pattyn wrote:
>>  We should remove the check. It was added because GLib made the mistake of
>>  forbidding them, and the mistake was imported into D-Bus, which led to remote
>>  DoS attacks in KDE applications that sent remote text via D-Bus (konversation
>>  sent the text sent by people from IRC).
>>  GLib was fixed in version 2.36 and D-Bus was fixed in 1.6.10. Since 1.6.10 is
>>  pretty new, we need to keep a version check in QtDBus.
>
> Is it OK then to remove the check in QUtf8Codec, or do we need a check on the DBus version (which is not relevant for other platforms than Linux), and depending on the version include/exclude the check?
>

As for "is not relevant for other platforms than Linux", DBus successfully runs on OS X and IIRC can be used on Windows as well.

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Regards,
Konstantin