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hv@crypt.org wrote:
>
> I note also that the -A switch handling does a forbid_setid("-A").
> Any particular reason why it does that? I'd have thought that in
> general a script would be expected to run more safely with -A, so
> that it should positively be encouraged.
I imagined that's because you can pass code to be executed via -A to
the regexp. E.g. via a nasty PERL5OPT.