This is meaningful in a web application, where you want to protect your servers from web monkeys trying to poke and prod their way through your application to the OS.

s/servers from web monkeys/computers from users/

That's a waste of cycles if such checks aren't required.

"Yeah, some luser stole the CC database, ordered $10_000_000_000 of goods, sold the customer list to spammers and deleted all the real orders, but hey! the application runs 0.002% faster!"

Sorry, I don't agree: if you're dealing with user input in a situation where they could (intentionally or unintentionally*) damage the system and the language offers you a helping hand, why not use it?

I use -T for pretty much anything that's going to be run by anyone except me (I assume I'll supply only valid input -- I'm right _most_ of the time): Like use strict; it helps me write good code, in this case ensuring I validate user input.

* "What due you mean I can't use spaces, (), &, ;, *, ? in filenames?"

-- Sorry if this is abrupt:it's been a rough week!

In reply to Re^2: Taint mode... use all the time? by cbatjesmond
in thread Taint mode... use all the time? by jfroebe

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