Niels van Dijke

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• Commented on Making Taint support optional in Perl
  I would opt for a dedicated binary 'tperl' which has enabled taint mode by default. And a similar set of *.so libraries for Perl embedded environments such as Apache and PostgreSQL. And yes, we also use taint mode on public...

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• Neil Bowers commented on Making Taint support optional in Perl

  Hi darthed,

  Can you give a bit more details on how you use taint please? Very few people have said "yeah, I love taint, please keep it", so it would be helpful to hear more details. Thanks!

• philip r brenan commented on Making Taint support optional in Perl

  Likewise we use taint in web applications whose code does not show up on CPAN. If taint were removed in later releases of Perl that would deny us an upgrade path to those releases. If you wish to remove taint please provide a feature guard so that the removal has to be explicitly requested. Thanks!