Checking if $^X is a valid file name doesn't make it safe. You might as well use /(.*)/s.

On the plus side, there doesn't appear to be any reason for $^X to be tainted in Windows. 

use Win32::Process;

sub ErrorReport{
   print Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() );
}

Win32::Process::Create(
   my $child,
   'c:\\progs\\perl5100\\bin\\perl.exe',
   'evil -le"print $^X"',
   0,
   NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
   "."
)
   or die ErrorReport();

$child->Wait(INFINITE);

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c:\progs\perl5100\bin\perl.exe

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If you trust the perl you are running, then it looks like $^X is safe.
If you don't trust the perl you are running, then it doesn't matter if $^X safe or not.

By the way,
everything that matches qr{^[^/\0]+\z} is a valid file name in unix,
and everything that matches qr{^[^\0]+\z} is a valid file path in unix.
I don't know where you got qr{ (\A[- + @ [:word:] . / ]+)\z }x from.

In reply to Re: One true regexp for untainting windows filenames? by ikegami
in thread One true regexp for untainting windows filenames? by jaldhar

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