Bug #4246 for CPANPLUS: Arg parsing is too naive

Thu Oct 30 09:03:36 2003 jv [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Arg parsing is too naive

CPAN Terminal> ! print "foo", "bar", "blech" foobarblech CPAN Terminal> ! print "foo", "-bar", "blech" fooblech This could lead to severe problems: CPAN Terminal> ! system("formatsystemdisk", "-checkonly")

Fri Oct 31 03:31:58 2003 autrijus [...] autrijus.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [cpan #4246] Arg parsing is too naive
From:	Autrijus Tang <autrijus [...] autrijus.org>
To:	bug-CPANPLUS [...] rt.cpan.org
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:32:08 +0800
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?b 四, 2003-10-30 22:03, Johan_Vromans via RT ?g?D?G Show quoted text

> CPAN Terminal> ! print "foo", "-bar", "blech" > fooblech > This could lead to severe problems: > CPAN Terminal> ! system("formatsystemdisk", "-checkonly")

Well, don't do that then. :-) But seriously, I don't see it as a showstopper, so it will have to wait till 0.050. Thanks, /Autrijus/

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Mon Nov 03 08:49:58 2003 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

it's now fixed in -devel: CPAN Terminal> ! system('wget --version'); GNU Wget 1.8.2 Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>.

Mon Nov 03 08:49:58 2003 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'