From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
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.

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