in reply to Catching errors in embedded Perl

What about running your embedded perl code through "perl -c" first and looking for "syntax OK"?

I'm having difficulty seeing how perl code with syntax errors and missing modules would end up in an embedded application when it could be checked in advance. Are you letting users enter arbitrary perl from an input stream? If so, that's a security risk.

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Re^2: Catching errors in embedded Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 14, 2004 at 17:50 UTC
    Understood. However, the program itself is a large server and the Perl code consists of add-on modules written by users for themselves to add functionality. While ideally each user would run their code through 'perl -c' ahead of time, I don't want to punish them for a bug in their Perl code with a crash of the entire server that may be supporting other requests.
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