Taint checking and die

Hi,

With taint checking on (-T), doing the following causes my test server
to terminate with the message "Insecure dependency in open while
running with -t switch":

die "path = $ENV{PATH}\n";

Doing the same via a simple perl script does not result in failure.

Apparently the die in the mod_perl environment is behaving differently.
Is this normal?  If so, shouldn't it say "Insecure dependency in die
..."?

I've switched to -t instead, but like the idea of server termination
when the taint check finds something.

mod_perl 2.0.4
perl 5.12.1

Thank you,
Ted