Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:30:02 GMT From: Darren Pilgrim <ports.maintainer@evilphi.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking Message-ID: <201303290530.r2T5U2LR063623@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/177416; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Darren Pilgrim <ports.maintainer@evilphi.com> To: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> Cc: "bug-followup@FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:20:55 -0700 On 2013-03-28 21:43, Paul Beard wrote: > I have rebuilt/reinstalled the lot since then and get the same > result. So that's not it. Unless the implication is that a new system > could exhibit this behavior. There are steps between what's been done so far and a brand new system. A complete refetch and reinstall of everything perl is one such step. > As noted, there are other instances of this reported though they are > vanishingly rare. So there may be something in the almost 20 year old > code (some of the modules have comment/copyright dates from the mid > 90s) that only shows up under rare confluences of events. That's more or less my point, yes. You have about 5 times as many p5 ports as I've ever seen on one system. > And to be clear, it's not the taint check alone: it's the fact that > the daemonize option no longer works. There's no runtime argument or > config option for that. It just doesn't work at all. So running it as > a service fails. The thing is I can't reproduce this behaviour. I even ran it on a RELENG_6 system and it worked fine there. > I don't think this is a bug in postgrey which is why I worded the > subject as I did. I think the misfeature is in the modules or perhaps > in some unique aspect of my kernel/userland. But it's a PR for the mail/postgrey port. It sounds like it's reasonable to close this PR.
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