That's a good start, Hippo, thank you! Now, how much would it take to add the sub-components alluded to in the documentation?

For example:

On versions of Perl before 5.26, activating taint mode will also remove the current directory (".") from the default value of @INC. Since version 5.26, the current directory isn't included in @INC by default.

I'd like to know what the differences in taint implementation are from one Perl version to another. I never had trouble with the @INC nor with the use of backticks to execute an external command until I unsuspectingly used a version of Perl advanced beyond this line. From what I see in the documentation, this is not the only aspect which has seen changes in taint implementation. For example:

To test whether a variable contains tainted data, and whose use would thus trigger an "Insecure dependency" message, you can use the tainted() function of the Scalar::Util module, available in your nearby CPAN mirror, and included in Perl starting from the release 5.8.0. Or you may be able to use the following is_tainted() function.

I note that your table did not go back as far as to 5.8.0--but things were already starting to move at that point, if not before.

To be clear, my understanding is that the taint mode is no longer so much of an all-or-nothing feature: it comes in multiple shades these days. It may have been true in the past that it was either enabled or disabled...this seems to be no longer the case, and it is precisely this condition for which a table would come in handy, as there is much more information than merely "Yes" or "No" which is relevant.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^9: How to disable taint checking by Perl? by Polyglot
in thread How to disable taint checking by Perl? by dissident

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