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Postings from February 2003
--- Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> wrote:
> 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.
I was playing on the safe side, but anyway, I think that if a
programmer wants to leave assertions active on a script to be used on
taint mode it should explicitely use 'assertions::activate' at the
beginning of the script instead of letting assertions being selected
from the outside.
Bye,
- Salva