Re: readline taint screwup in mj_shell

I couldn't find the problem with that module, either. I installed the 
Gnu readline module, which doesn't suffer from the same problem.

Michael

John R. Levine wrote:
> I'm running perl 5.8.9 on FreeBSD. In mj_shell, I can type regular 
> text, but when I do a backspace or any other editing character, it 
> dies with
>
> Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/SelfLoader.pm line 73.
>
> It's using the perl readline, and I have been poking at it without 
> success. When I try to run .mj_shell under the perl debugger it dies 
> with some other complaint before it even tries to read anything from 
> the keyboard.
>
> I vaguely remember fixing this before, but I can't remember what I 
> did. As I recall, it's a bug in one of the libraries that MJ uses, not 
> in MJ itself. Ring any bells?
>
> R's,
> John
>