Re: [Boston.pm] Historical question: origin of the idea of tainting

Bill Ricker via Boston-pm <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:57:56 -0400
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Archaeology ... it's even older.

`taintperl` was a separate build as-of 2.0 Patch #16 (much as ORAPERL was a
separate build in Perl 4), bcoming a mode in Perl3.0.

> *perl* 2.0 patch #16
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/perl$20taint$20after$3A1981$2F01$2F01$20before$3A1990$2F01$2F16/comp.sources.bugs/h0Bb9I_0Rxo/jSFgVfdHiNEJ> Group:
> comp.sources.bugs
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/comp.sources.bugs>
> System: *perl* version 2.0 Patch #: 16 Priority: MEDIUM Subject: now
> makes use of setre[ug]id() if available Subject: now creates taintperl for
> *taint* ...
> 11/19/88 by Larry Wall
>
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/perl$20taint$20after$3A1981$2F01$2F01$20before$3A1990$2F01$2F16/comp.sources.bugs/h0Bb9I_0Rxo/jSFgVfdHiNEJ

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