[Pdx-pm] I think the definition of failsafe is that things should do the safe thing if they fail
Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 23:03:52 PDT 2007
# from Daniel Johnson
# on Wednesday 17 October 2007 22:46:
>Don't write code like in the link!
>
>http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34680
Yeah. More importantly, don't run such code as root.
Note Abigail's method of using a dedicated, unprivileged user to install
code from CPAN. Then the only files at risk are your perl tree.
--Eric
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