Just because it's a bizarre Perl challenge (and I tend to like those), I took a hack at what a command line '-MRequires::re::taint" would need to do in order to force "use re 'taint'" in all modules subsequently loaded.
I've attached a sample module to do just that and some sample code. To try it, untar the attachment, cd into the resulting directory, and run this: $ perl -T -I. -MRequire::re::taint taint-test.pl Type in some filename, e.g. "foo.txt" and hit return to watch it die of a taint error. And despite having inserted "use re 'taint'" into wrapper.pm, it even dies with the correct line number. :-) This is so awful that I'm certainly not planning to release it as a module (I wouldn't want to even pretend to support it) -- or at least not outside the Acme namespace, but if anyone wants to take it on, they're welcome to take this code as a starting point. -- David
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