Re: majordomo local exploit

[chip () VALINUX COM (Chip Salzenberg)]

According to Henrik Edlund:
> There is no need, I believe, to use the sysopen function as someone
> else suggested earlier.

But sysopen() is a simpler approach that eliminates all such concerns,
and adds robustness.  Simply prepending "< " is not enough to work in
the presence of, say, filenames that begin with whitespace.

PS: I added sysopen() to Perl 5.4.  :-)

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