This sounds very weird.

I note that . was reomoved from @INC in Perl 5.26, but this has nothing to do with taint mode. It would describe the symptoms you describe without needing to involve mythical ideas about how taint mode could work or how taint mode could always be enabled though.

Maybe simply putting . into @INC already solves your problem? Setting PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC could be a band-aid for that issue. Also consider the code mentioned in the perldelta:

BEGIN {
    my $dir = "/some/trusted/directory";
    chdir $dir or die "Can't chdir to $dir: $!\n";
    # safe now
    push @INC, '.';
}
 
use "Foo::Bar"; # may load /some/trusted/directory/Foo/Bar.pm
do "config.pl"; # may load /some/trusted/directory/config.pl

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See perl5260delta.pod

In reply to Re^12: How to disable taint checking by Perl? by Corion
in thread How to disable taint checking by Perl? by dissident

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