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On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote: > > If you really know what you're doing and you want to just ignore these flags, > running with taint turned off even though it was specified on the command line, > then this can trivially be done by writing a script that wraps the perl > executable. IMHO, it is better to do it that way rather than adding the > dangerous ignore-taint feature to the perl binary itself. You don't understand the patch. The *cost* of taint checks exists in the source regardless of whether taint is turned *on*. There are a number of places that effectively have a "is taint on? if so do X" code path. The patch would compile out all those conditional checks. Wrapping wouldn't do anything. David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next