Bug accessing file whose path starts with a dot

VilleSkyttä scop at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 2 08:43:28 PST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:49, David O'Shea wrote:
> At Sat Oct 25 05:18:39 PDT 2003, VilleSkytta wrote:

> > By the way, do you need to apply any other patches to get cvsweb to
> > run under Win32/Cygwin or does it work out-of-the-box?
> 
> I had to disable taint mode by removing -T from the #! line, but that
> was just a tip I got from the archives of this alias and I think it
> was just a Perl 5.6 thing or something - you probably know better than me why I
> had to do it :)

Cool, thanks for the info.  IIRC the taint mode troubles were actually a
Perl 5.8 thing, but anyway that shouldn't be necessary any more with the
new 2.9.1 beta release.



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