darthed

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• Commented on Making Taint support optional in Perl
  I'm the task leader for a group that develops web and database applications, and we have dozens of web applications that use and rely on taint mode. I want to say this is a horrible idea....
• Commented on Are you using Cache::Memcached and its ->stats method?
  Have you considered contributing your modified, faster stats() method to Cache::Memcached::Fast so that you can stop using Cache::Memcached entirely? Or does it rely on too much plumbing from other parts of Cache::Memcached to make that feasible?...

Comment Threads

• Lee J commented on Are you using Cache::Memcached and its ->stats method?

  I've considered that, it's been put into my "stuff I should do but probably won't have the time until next decade" list :)

• Niels van Dijke 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 facing websites as good practice.

• 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!