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Re: Perl essential ?



On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:31:34 +1100, Glenn McGrath
<bug1@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>Would it be a good long term goal to remove perl from Esssential and
>rewrite these scripts for a posix compliant shell or in c.

I would really second this. perl is too powerful to be on a security
relevant system.

Greetings
Marc

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