Saftey warning: You're passing $fullfile through the shell, potentialy doing all sorts of bad things.

eval 'my ($pid) = fork; if ($pid == 0) { exec "display -title %d/%f $fullfile" }';

Consider $fullfile='; rm -rf /', or 'realfilename > ~/irreplacable.file', or even '</dev/urandom'.

Unless your input data file is implicitly trusted, you should be carefuly filtering it. Even if it is, you should be using the array form of exec -- exec(qw(display -title %d/%f), $fullfile).

Even then, consider what arguments display takes -- you should probably filter for filenames starting with a dash, or use a -- end-of-arguments marker, if display supports it.

Oh, and there's no reason to use stringy eval here; BLOCK eval will work just as well, and is much more efficent. (Stringy eval will recompile the argument every time.)

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In reply to Re: Parallel processing, sort of by theorbtwo
in thread Parallel processing, sort of by mephit

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