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Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts



On 2019-01-24 09:46:56 +0100, Ansgar wrote:
> But "<>" isn't the only problem, there are way too many uses of the
> two-argument form of Perl's "open" too...

Perhaps, but at least "open" had correctly been documented since the
beginning, and I quickly learnt to preprend "<" to the filename in
the 1990s (the 3-arg version did not exist at that time, IIRC).

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