[blead-639-gd942165] t/op/taint.t skip failing tests

[email protected] (John Malmberg)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Resubmitted with modified comments.

Normally on VMS, the equivalent to /tmp is usually private to the logged 
in user, as such is it not usually world writable.

When this test is run with a world writable temp directory, it does not 
pass because the tainting on DCL$PATH is not checked.

This is a TODO issue on VMS.

-John
[email protected]
Personal Opinion Only
t_op_taint_t2.gdiff (text/plain, 719 B)
--- /rsync_root/perl/t/op/taint.t	Mon Feb 16 09:09:07 2009
+++ t/op/taint.t	Tue Feb 17 19:34:20 2009
@@ -219,7 +219,13 @@
 	test  eval { `$echo 1` } eq '';
 	test $@ =~ /^Insecure \$ENV{DCL\$PATH}/, $@;
 	SKIP: {
-            skip q[can't find world-writeable directory to test DCL$PATH], 2
+
+             # DCL$PATH is not specifically checked by perl on VMS when
+             # running the test programs, so tainting it is not going to be
+             # noticed.  So for now, this test is not valid.
+
+             skip q[TODO DCL$PATH tainting is not checked by perl], 2;
+             skip q[can't find world-writeable directory to test DCL$PATH], 2
               unless $tmp;
 
 	    $ENV{'DCL$PATH'} = $tmp;
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