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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-12-14 09:41:26 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-12-14 10:56:57 -0700
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perlsec: Fix example to localize $@.
Not doing this can cause hard-to-find bugs.
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@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ nearby CPAN mirror, and included in Perl starting from the release 5.8.0.
Or you may be able to use the following C<is_tainted()> function.
sub is_tainted {
+ local $@; # Don't pollute caller's value.
return ! eval { eval("#" . substr(join("", @_), 0, 0)); 1 };
}