fix: serialize launchd plist safely - #60
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Closing temporarily for a final pre-PR repository-guideline review. The branch is preserved; this will only be reopened after the final scope/style/test review is complete. |
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Superseded by #64. The fork branch was amended after the contribution-guideline audit, and GitHub does not allow reopening this PR after that force-push. |
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Summary
_build_plist()withplistlibReproduction
With the current implementation, a ProgramArgument such as
/tmp/tool&nameor a config/log path containing&,<, or>is inserted into XML unescaped. Parsing the generated plist then fails withExpatError: not well-formed.Root cause
_build_plist()manually interpolates arbitrary strings into XML<string>elements instead of using a plist serializer.Validation
1 passed320 passedgit diff --checkcleanCompatibility
The generated plist keeps the same launchd semantics:
LabelProgramArgumentsRunAtLoadKeepAliveStandardOutPathStandardErrorPathOnly serialization/escaping is changed; textual XML formatting is intentionally not treated as an API.
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