Bugs item #1577739, was opened at 2006-10-15 20:42 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zmoelnig You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1577739&group_id=55736

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Private: No Submitted By: Frank Barknecht (fbar) Assigned to: Miller Puckette (millerpuckette) Summary: Malformed data at end of patch is treated as sender

Initial Comment: When opening a patch file Pd doesn't check correctly if all messages are well-formed. Inserting a line at end of a patch file, that starts with a symbol and ends with a ";" will treat the leading symbol as a receive-target and will send the rest of the line to that receiver.

For example inserting:

pd dsp 1;

at the end of a patch will switch on audio, even when the patch is started with "pd -noloadbang".

While this message is harmless, other messages may do nasty things and open a security hole.

Attached is a patch that illustrates this behaviour, also see this pd-list message thread:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-10/043161.html

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Date: 2008-08-04 18:45

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i think this is a feature