On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:24:03AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Andrew Savige wrote: > > I noticed in Test::Tutorial: > > "Taint mode is a funny thing. It's the globalest of all global features. > > Once you turn it on it effects all code in your program and all modules > > used (and all the modules they use). If a single piece of code isn't > > taint clean, the whole thing explodes. With that in mind, it's very > > important to ensure your module works under taint mode." > > Not to mention that it's buggy as hell. For example, in various versions > of Perl I've used there have been rather serious bugs in the regex engine > when taint mode is on, even when dealing with untainted variables!
I've never hit anything like this. Do you have examples? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Loon.
