Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6

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>>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Avery> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
Avery> waiting to happen.  The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
Avery> isn't very hard to implement.  (Instead of system() in the subprocess,
Avery> you can use exec().)

quotemeta() is about regex quoting.  This is not precisely the same as shell
quoting, and is both misleading, and potentially broken.

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