Why Perl do But Python can't?

[Clarence Gardner]

Kelly Lynn Martin <kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us> wrote:
: Scripts (of any sort) are inherently unsafe when run setuid or setgid.
: See the perlsec manpage for why.

This is not true, and is a myth people need to get over.  The danger
Kelly referred to exists on some Unix-like systems and not on others.
On a system where they are safe, there is no reason whatsoever to use
a setuid wrapper.

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Clarence Gardner
Software Engineer
NetLojix Communications    NASDAQ:NETX
clarence at netlojix.com