Re: RFC 227 (v1) Extend the window to turn on taint mode

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:52 AM 9/15/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:52:00AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > =head1 TITLE
> >
> > Extend the window to turn on taint mode
>
>As long as we're talking about tainting (this is a good idea, BTW) how
>does everyone feel about a few other tainting widgets...
>
>- A way to know when taint mode is on. ($TAINT or something)
>
>- A way to explicity taint a variable (taint(@this)).
>
>And no, there shouldn't be an untaint() function.  Orthoginality can
>blow me, detainting without filtering should remain hard.

Damn straight. :) Security's annoying, and people can, in this instance, cope.

>- A way to explicitly check if a variable is tainted (is_tainted(%this))

Take a look at the Taint modules on CPAN. Mine does just these, and I think 
Tom Phoenix's does a bunch more.

                                        Dan

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