git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6

From
Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2008, 13:37 UTC
Message-ID
<8663phnw3z.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To
<32541b130808302235g6a23efcfs78efe2ef557cd9c7@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

Avery> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant) Avery> waiting to happen. The above is the only sane way to do it, and it Avery> isn't very hard to implement. (Instead of system() in the subprocess, Avery> you can use exec().)

quotemeta() is about regex quoting. This is not precisely the same as shell quoting, and is both misleading, and potentially broken.

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
Previous: Avery PennarunNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 10 of 29 in “change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6”
  1. change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6Robert Schiele, Aug 30, 2008
  2. Jeff KingAug 30, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2008
  4. Jeff KingAug 30, 2008
  5. Robert SchieleAug 30, 2008
  6. Jeff KingAug 30, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiAug 30, 2008
  8. Robert SchieleAug 30, 2008
  9. Avery PennarunAug 31, 2008
  10. Randal L. SchwartzAug 31, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2008
  12. Avery PennarunAug 31, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiAug 31, 2008
  14. Petr BaudisAug 31, 2008
  15. H. Peter AnvinSep 1, 2008
  16. Robert SchieleSep 1, 2008
  17. Tom G. ChristensenSep 1, 2008
  18. Brandon CaseySep 4, 2008
  19. Tom G. ChristensenSep 5, 2008
  20. Jakub NarebskiAug 31, 2008
  21. Jay SoffianSep 1, 2008
  22. Alex RiesenSep 1, 2008
  23. Avery PennarunSep 2, 2008
  24. Avery PennarunSep 2, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2008
  26. Randal L. SchwartzAug 31, 2008
  27. Ask Bjørn HansenAug 31, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.