Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:08:55 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/update pkg_update.pl Message-ID: <3A54F477.DCD11D4B@originative.co.uk> References: <xzp8zorla59.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200101041509.f04F9kY06526@gratis.grondar.za> <xzp3dezl2gm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3A54A329.3A84087F@freebsd-services.co.uk> <20010104214946.W2140@hand.dotat.at>
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Tony Finch wrote: > > Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> wrote: > > > >sysopen() is not portable, it is a wrapper to the underlying OS open() > >call and as such you have to know what the OS file modes are. > > You can easily get that information by using POSIX.pm. I could yes, but I could just open properly since that's a lot easier. The mistake was using "<$file", what I should have done was use the list version i.e. open(HANDLE, "<", $file) and then there wouldn't have any issues at all, though Mark makes a valid point about taint checking. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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