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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname

From:
Sam Tregar
Date:
February 7, 2000 09:45
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.21.0002071239150.923-100000@zoltar.vm.com
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> And not a single one of you has paid attention to the tmpfile problem
> that's triggered a couple dozen bugtraq reports against Perl in the
> last six months.

I read your article - I thought you covered the topic admirably.  If
anything, you might have overexposed Perl internals to an unninitiated
audience, but they'll recover.

Ultimately I don't think there is much we can do about this problem except
to document it clearly in the docs.

-sam






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