I'm writing a program that will be opening a couple of files (something that I hope that other people may actually use one day -- a big step for me :) ), and I'm a bit curious about the security implications of the following two alternatives:

open my $fh, MODE, FILE or die "blah blah $!";
open my $fh, "MODE FILE" or die "yadda yadda $!";

I'm definitely going to specify the mode with which to open the file (the file name is configurable via a command-line switch, so I want to do my best to prevent anything nasty from happening), but I'm wondering about whether the former or the latter is considered to be more secure. Yes, I know that to achieve ultimate security I shouldn't open any files. perlsec and perlopentut didn't mention anything about either method. And yes, I will be providing more descriptive die messages. :) Thanks in advance for any guidance.

In reply to open my $fh, MODE, FILE vs. open my $fh, "MODE FILE" by Anonymous Monk

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