perl/perl-5.31.5-Fix-taint-mode-INC-documentation.patch

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From f73351928dfa1d1d564d3f7b8e63c5281ed835ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:24:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix taint mode @INC documentation
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Explain that -T no longer removes '.' from @INC because, since
5.26, '.' isn't in @INC to start with.
Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
---
pod/perlsec.pod | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlsec.pod b/pod/perlsec.pod
index b210445685..0682674143 100644
--- a/pod/perlsec.pod
+++ b/pod/perlsec.pod
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ Unix-like environments that support #! and setuid or setgid scripts.)
=head2 Taint mode and @INC
-When the taint mode (C<-T>) is in effect, the "." directory is removed
-from C<@INC>, and the environment variables C<PERL5LIB> and C<PERLLIB>
+When the taint mode (C<-T>) is in effect, the environment variables
+C<PERL5LIB> and C<PERLLIB>
are ignored by Perl. You can still adjust C<@INC> from outside the
program by using the C<-I> command line option as explained in
L<perlrun>. The two environment variables are ignored because
@@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ problem will be reported:
Insecure dependency in require while running with -T switch
+On versions of Perl before 5.26, activating taint mode will also remove
+the current directory (".") from C<@INC>. Since version 5.26, the
+current directory isn't included in C<@INC>.
+
=head2 Cleaning Up Your Path
For "Insecure C<$ENV{PATH}>" messages, you need to set C<$ENV{'PATH'}> to
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