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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:43:19 +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:  <3A550A97.C7789A6C@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> <3A54F477.DCD11D4B@originative.co.uk> <20010104224743.Z2140@hand.dotat.at>

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Tony Finch wrote:
> 
> Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >The mistake was using "<$file", what I should have done was use the list
> >version i.e.
> >
> >open(HANDLE, "<", $file)
> 
> That must require perl 5.6 because it doesn't work in 5.005.

Yes it does, maybe not such a generic solution then but probably the
correct way to code things in the future. In any case, this thread is a
bit of a red herring, the fix I applied of "< $file" is a correct fix
for the bug though it is not as safe as it could be since $file does
need some taint checking.

Paul.


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