Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:04:50AM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:50:28AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > On Mon 25 Sep, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > > Turn on tainting
> > 
> > What would it do on a platform that does not support Tainting?
> 
> Is this a real issue?  Is there a platform where tainting isn't
> supported?

I wouldn't think so.  Tainting is a Perl thing.  Perl does it's best
to mark "unsafe" things as tainted.  What's unsafe and Perl's best
vary from platform to platform, but tainting still happens.  (But this
is from a guy who has only used but 6 or 7 of the OSes that Perl has
been ported to)

-Scott
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