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One genuine problem was the you could send snippets of code to any Tcl/Tk program running on the same X server and it would execute them. Obviously X isn't the most secure of systems and you should trust your X clients, but this made it very easy if you could persuade someone to run a "command line" program. I wonder if that was fixed?



This is something to be aware of. It can be guarded against, see https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl/TkCmd/send.htm#M9 .


To be fair, it is a pretty cool feature.




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