Re: perl setuid/suid and "use MODULE"

2010-04-29 Thread David Lee
so it needs to be untainted it before being fed into "use lib" (or other adjustment to '@INC'). -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel:+44-118-9499 362 : email: david@ecmwf.int -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: begi

perl setuid/suid and "use MODULE"

2010-04-28 Thread David Lee
? I don't see any in "Programming Perl (3rd edition)", nor in web searches. (While I suspect that relocating the "MODULE::NAME" items to be within the each system's perl installation (site/vendor etc.) might possibly work, there may be local administrative resistance

Re: print flips to scientific notation when integer exceeds 15 decimal digits

2009-11-05 Thread David Lee
Philip Potter wrote: 2009/11/4 David Lee : [...] Anyway, your explanation was useful and gives us sufficient to decide how to address our local use of these numbers. (In our case, they are human-oriented accumulated byte-counts, for which we don't actually need that significance/prec

Re: print flips to scientific notation when integer exceeds 15 decimal digits

2009-11-04 Thread David Lee
to address our local use of these numbers. (In our case, they are human-oriented accumulated byte-counts, for which we don't actually need that significance/precision.) Thanks. -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel:+44-1

print flips to scientific notation when integer exceeds 15 decimal digits

2009-11-03 Thread David Lee
n exercise for the reader!) I'm not aware of any documentation about this surprise. Is this a program bug or a documentation bug? (Or a self bug?) Is there a more appropriate forum than "beginn...@..." to raise this? -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield