Re: RFC 227 (v1) Extend the window to turn on taint mode

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:58 PM 9/15/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>DS> Any time the code being executed isn't being run as the person asking for
>DS> its execution you can have problems. Think daemons in perl, or
>DS> client-server code. (Like CGI programs, or mailing-list managers) Jobs 
>run
>DS> automagically by privileged users (and arguably not automagically) can be
>DS> targets. Think odd filenames in /tmp and cron jobs owned by root.
>
>But these all lack command line switches that are passed to perl.

No, they don't. Not everywhere, certainly. Command-line switches can be 
passed to all of 'em. Not everyone counts on the magic shebang line to find 
the command interpreter...


                                        Dan

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