Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit

From: Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn_at_stonehenge.com)
Date: 10/24/03

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    To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Date: 23 Oct 2003 17:05:49 -0700

    >>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com> writes:

    Shawn> The fact that he's arguing with Randal is not the problem, Randal makes
    Shawn> mistakes too.

    Precisely. Some of them a matter of public record:
    http://www.lightlink.com/fors/ :)

    Shawn> The fact that he's arguing what the Perl interpreter does
    Shawn> without looking at the source code is the problem. The fact that he's
    Shawn> arguing that way to Randal is just icing on the cake, right up there
    Shawn> with the David Korn / Microsoft story almost. Almost; Randal is Just
    Shawn> Another Perl Hacker, he didn't write the code in question.

    True, but these are things that have not changed function since Perl version
    2, and I've been around since then. :)

    The fact that Perl doesn't use /bin/sh for system(), exec(),
    `backticks`, or pipe-open when they are simple enough is a very cool
    fact. And I like promoting that fact.

    Save forks(). Use Perl. :) 

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