From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2004-02-21T09:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: tainted symbols?

---- Carlos wrote: ----
> $SAFE=1
>
> ut = "'Hello world'" # untainted string
> us = ut.intern      # untainted symbol
>
> t = gets.chomp # -> happens to be 'Hello world'
> s = t.intern   # tainted
>
> now 'us' points to a tainted symbol... I think that would be
> undesirable...
>

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to point out here. In the above
example 'us' would always be untainted. To my mind 'us' should have the same
taint that the string it was created from had.

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John Long
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