* Disable taint checking for all builds as people keep complaining about it,

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
index f10905849b946e4bcb6c8856d226e64c62724ee5..de20385f61cea7f519ec92017a53cab62228031b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Insecure_dependency_in_utime.mdwn
@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ This was in ikiwiki\_2.32.3.
 I worked-around this by doing:
 
         utime IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($change->{when}), IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($change->{when}), "$config{srcdir}/$file
+
+> Don't build ikiwiki with taint checking. It's known to be broken in
+> apparently all versions of perl, apparently leaking taint flags at random.
+> See [[Insecure_dependency_in_mkdir]] --[[Joey]]
+
+[[tag done]]