Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Re: Nms-cgi-support digest, Vol 1 #10 - 2 msgs

[Nick C. <ni...@cl...>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:29:03PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, I had originally taken the taint switch off in simple search for that
> > reason.  I wonder how it found its way back in? :)
> 
> Er, because that isnt the right solution to the problem ;-}  I think that
> the use of -T is stated in the ground rules, if the File::Find that comes
> with older Perls can't take it then we will have to find something else to
> use - Is it possible (or indeed desirable ) to wrap the find() in $^T = 0;
> ... $^T = 1;   as long as we are content that everything our code is
> passing to find() is no longer tainted ?

IMO '$^T = 0;' is a bad, bad thing.

I'd much sooner fall back to using readdir.

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Nick