in reply to Win32 taint...shouldn't this fail?

Oops, I added the incorrect information as to what I typed in on the command line. I tried it this way as well: 
perl -t tainttest.pl
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
file=foo.txt
comment="now"
^Z

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This modifies foo.txt with the argument. I tried the same thing on a UNIX box and it failed, as expected. Anybody know any reason why taint checking is not working on the Win32 command line?

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Re: Re: Win32 taint...shouldn't this fail?
by hopes (Friar) on Sep 21, 2001 at 21:29 UTC
    OK, well...

    In Linux, when you do
    ^Z (CTRL+Z)
    you are stopping the current process (and there is no output in the file)

    To end the tainting, you should make ^D (instead ^Z)

    I've executed my script in a i386-Linux with Perl v5.6.0 and the output is what you expect.

    Hope this help
    hopes
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