Taint shmread().

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldelta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 88655be..52a6fba 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ Because the user can affect her own encrypted password and login shell
 the password and shell returned by the getpwent(), getpwnam(), and
 getpwuid() functions are tainted.
 
+=head2 The shmread() now taints its variable
+
+Because other (untrusted) processes can modify shared memory segments
+for their own nefarious purposes, the variable modified by shmread()
+becomes tainted.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 C Source Incompatibilities