perl 5.0 alpha 2perl-5a2

[editor's note: from history.perl.org.  The sparc executables
originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tainted.pl b/lib/tainted.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e24867a83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tainted.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# This subroutine returns true if its argument is tainted, false otherwise.
+
+sub tainted {
+    local($@);
+    eval { kill 0 * $_[0] };
+    $@ =~ /^Insecure/;
+}
+
+1;