Adam Shand wrote: > How do I untaint the glob, or better yet access it so that it's not > tainted to start with (if that's possible)? The files I'm accessing are > safe as only root can write to them, but I'd like to do this the 'right > way'. > > I can't find anything relevant to this in the docs/web/books (doubtless > I'm just looking in the wrong places) and it's starting to get > irritating :)
perldoc perlsec is your friend! :) Bottom line is that globs are *always* tainted, as is anything that relies on shell processing (csh being how globbing is done). Try using File::Find, that should let you get data in an untainted manner. Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
