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diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml index 0a1ff24c7..fc3138517 100644 --- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml +++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml @@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Texinfo</title> -<para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as "a string -occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes in memory" -and "one can break the string anywhere" that are incorrect in UTF-8 locales. -While the patch below is not the proper solution, it at least hides the problem -by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para> - -<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen> - <para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para> |