On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Andrew Savige wrote: > I noticed in Test::Tutorial: > "Taint mode is a funny thing. It's the globalest of all global features. > Once you turn it on it effects all code in your program and all modules > used (and all the modules they use). If a single piece of code isn't > taint clean, the whole thing explodes. With that in mind, it's very > important to ensure your module works under taint mode."
Not to mention that it's buggy as hell. For example, in various versions of Perl I've used there have been rather serious bugs in the regex engine when taint mode is on, even when dealing with untainted variables! I for one think taint mode is rather hopeless until taint mode itself gets better testing in the Perl core. > What are general opinions re taint tests for CPAN modules? > (i.e. a test with #!perl -Tw as the first line of the test). See above. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
