[MacPerl] More On Taint Checks

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

With MacPerl, unlike Unix perl, the primary lib directories are not
hardcoded into the binary.  With tainting on, in MacPerl, those paths are
not used in @INC, so you cannot use modules.

To fix this, you will need to prepend this line to the beginning of your
scripts that do taint checks:

BEGIN {unshift @INC, "$ENV{MACPERL}lib:MacPPC:","$ENV{MACPERL}lib:"}

That should do the trick.

Note: if you want to use everything you have in your preferences as part of
@INC, you can use:

BEGIN {unshift @INC, "$ENV{MACPERL}lib:MacPPC:", map{"$_:"}
split(/,/,$ENV{PERL5LIB})}

This is less secure, but includes everything in your preferences.

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Chris Nandor               pudge@pobox.com           http://pudge.net/
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