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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-02-24 15:42:43 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-02-24 15:42:43 -0500
commitd14bde197eb0704c4172ad7113cc9c739487e724 (patch)
tree9c38724cda38d0278d88e9def6d73f2185e1108a /doc
parentf7303db5a194bff0e0c621efedc320cf9997d35e (diff)
* Disable taint checking for all builds as people keep complaining about it,
and since all versions of perl seem to be hopelessly broken.
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ This was in ikiwiki\_2.32.3.
I worked-around this by doing:
utime IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($change->{when}), IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($change->{when}), "$config{srcdir}/$file
+
+> Don't build ikiwiki with taint checking. It's known to be broken in
+> apparently all versions of perl, apparently leaking taint flags at random.
+> See [[Insecure_dependency_in_mkdir]] --[[Joey]]
+
+[[tag done]]