Re: [DOC PATCH] teach perlfaq1 about 5.10
[email protected] (brian d foy) Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:41:57 -0600
| Newsgroups | perl.perlfaq.workers,perl.perl5.porters |
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In article <[email protected]>, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the patch. I'll fix those up today. > Versions prior to perl5.004 had serious security problems with buffer > overflows, and in some cases have CERT advisories (for instance, > -http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html ). > +http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html). By convention we're putting a space after all URLs so the succeeding characters aren't treated as part of the URL by other processors. :)