X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/b1fecf16daa5e6652b603e918283f12d8584e869..a7d8af21cdc3fecef727a2ed2b95a18192374d0d:/doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn b/doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn index 3187ed54f..5fc1d8b75 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,17 @@ Using ikiwiki version 2.5gpa1 (the backport to Debian 3.1), I suddenly started getting the following error when rebuilding the wiki: +
 successfully generated /home/ikiwiki/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi
 Insecure dependency in rmdir while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Render.pm line 242.
 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 130.
+
I've no idea what's happening (hey, I'm a C programmer), but I've hacked prune() to workaround this as follows: +
 use Scalar::Util qw(tainted);
 
-sub prune ($) { #{{{
+sub prune ($) {
         my $file=shift;
 
         unlink($file);
@@ -22,4 +25,11 @@ sub prune ($) { #{{{
                         $dir = $1;
                 }
         }
-} #}}}
+}
+
+ +> Old versions of perl are known to have bugs with taint checking. +> I don't really support using ikiwiki with the perl 5.8.4 in debian +> oldstable, and would recommend upgrading. --[[Joey]] + +[[!tag patch done]]