From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Robert Schiele" <rschiele@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Lea Wiemann" <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:37:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8663phnw3z.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808302235g6a23efcfs78efe2ef557cd9c7@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:35:31 -0400")
>>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
Avery> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
Avery> waiting to happen. The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
Avery> isn't very hard to implement. (Instead of system() in the subprocess,
Avery> you can use exec().)
quotemeta() is about regex quoting. This is not precisely the same as shell
quoting, and is both misleading, and potentially broken.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-31 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 17:39 [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6 Robert Schiele
2008-08-30 18:00 ` Jeff King
2008-08-30 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-30 18:13 ` Jeff King
2008-08-30 18:34 ` Robert Schiele
2008-08-30 18:39 ` Jeff King
2008-08-30 20:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-30 21:21 ` Robert Schiele
2008-08-31 5:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-31 13:37 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2008-08-31 16:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-31 18:29 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-31 20:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-31 20:34 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-01 3:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-01 4:22 ` Robert Schiele
2008-09-01 13:06 ` Tom G. Christensen
2008-09-04 17:28 ` Brandon Casey
2008-09-05 6:34 ` Tom G. Christensen
2008-08-31 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-01 1:52 ` Jay Soffian
2008-09-01 21:42 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-02 0:23 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-09-02 17:50 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-30 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-31 13:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-08-31 19:54 ` Ask Bjørn Hansen
2008-09-01 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-01 1:48 ` Junio C Hamano
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