Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon writes: > My personal preference is for: > > $in=open :r "|/usr/bin/foo"; > > The pipe would be legal on either side of the string. This would > still allow the often-useful "type a pipe command at a prompt for a > file",
And it still allows for all those security holes in websites where inexperienced programmers are just expecting a filename but write code that's capable of executing commands. Such behaviour is non-obvious to somebody who hasn't been specifically warned about the danger, and the potential for abuse is high. Please let's not repeat this ... Smylers
