I'm trying to catch up on the ~90 autoconf ~60 automake and ~50
libtool mails standing in my mbox...
On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello autoconf-patches,
- There is too much dwimmery going on in perl. I think it needs more
than one quoting function; one for xsystem, and one for stuff like
... = new Autom4te::XFile "> $file"
but I wouldn't know how to make it foolproof. First, if the space is
missing after `>' and $file begins with `>', then append mode is used.
But also, if $file begins with whitespace, that is just ignored
anyway.
Not sure whether we want to protect the user from all such kinds of
things.
I *guess* that Autom4te::XFile will then use either the builtin
`open' or `IO::File'. Both of them can be called with the mode
specified in a separate argument, which is safer:
new IO::File "file", "r";
open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR
This solves the problem nicely and safely.
I'm going to read the patch series now :)
--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
