Taint.pm
                Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>

Perl has the ability to mark data as 'tainted', as described in the perlsec(1) manpage. Perl will prevent tainted data from being used for some operations, and you may wish to add such caution to your own code. The routines in this module provide convenient ways to taint data and to check data for taint.

• *
• This is a trial version of this module. Beware! *
• Some features may change before the final release.
• This module is not (yet) released under the same *
• standard licenses which are used for Perl itself. *
• (See copyright within the module's POD docs.)

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SYNOPSIS

       use Taint;
       warn "Oops"
         if tainted $foo, @bar;      # Test for tainted data
       kill $foo, @bar;              # before using it

       use Taint qw(taint);
       taint @some_vars;             # Intentionally taint data

REQUIRES

This should work with any Perl system which can use MakeMaker (that is, I believe at least Unix, Win32, VMS), and it should be easy (if not trivial) to port to other Perl systems. It uses no C code.

AUTHOR

Tom Phoenix, <rootbeer@teleport.com>

AVAILABILITY

You should find the latest version of this module on CPAN in (something like) this location.

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Phoenix/

Please don't rely upon an old version of this module.

SPECIAL NOTE

There is a different Taint module available in the CPAN directory for Dan Sugalski. Please compare and contrast these modules' approaches so that we may all reach a consensus about how this module should act.