Re: RFC: On-the-fly tainting via $^T

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:43:05PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> Let me just say that Larry has said in the past that untainting was
> deliberatly left difficult to do, on the basis that something which
> can have serious effect (ie security) should not be easy to do.
> 
> But then I suppose all previous decisions are up for re-deciding

Yes, they are. If we're going to make it trivially easy to untaint,
should we bother having tainting at all? :(

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