From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:37:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: FAQ sync.
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FAQ sync.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12911
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
index 1004e52..e9b1ef7 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2001/09/20 03:03:00 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod
index 8068db9..71be980 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq3.pod b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
index 842f78c..8bd3d45 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq3.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/10/17 14:14:20 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Put that in your F<.exrc> file (replacing the caret characters
 with control characters) and away you go.  In insert mode, ^T is
 for indenting, ^D is for undenting, and ^O is for blockdenting--
 as it were.  A more complete example, with comments, can be found at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
 
 If you are used to using the I<vgrind> program for printing out nice code
 to a laser printer, you can take a stab at this using
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ directory http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/08_User_Interfaces/
 Invaluable for Perl/Tk programming are the Perl/Tk FAQ at
 http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/%7Epvhp/ptk/ptkTOC.html , the Perl/Tk Reference
 Guide available at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/Stephen_O_Lidie/ , and the
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/Stephen_O_Lidie/ , and the
 online manpages at
 http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Eamundson/perl/perltk/toc.html .
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq4.pod b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
index d46bd15..f602d24 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq4.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2001/10/26 19:46:03 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
index 2d34bfa..28888f6 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq6.pod b/pod/perlfaq6.pod
index 81a9f3f..be7e8ec 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq6.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq6.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq7.pod b/pod/perlfaq7.pod
index cabfca1..e0b2e8e 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq7.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq7.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/19 14:39:24 $)
+perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/07 02:27:50 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -183,17 +183,9 @@ L<perlobj> and L<perlbot>.
 
 =head2 How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
 
-See L<perlsec/"Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data">.  Here's an
-example (which doesn't use any system calls, because the kill()
-is given no processes to signal):
-
-    sub is_tainted {
-	return ! eval { join('',@_), kill 0; 1; };
-    }
-
-This is not C<-w> clean, however.  There is no C<-w> clean way to
-detect taintedness--take this as a hint that you should untaint
-all possibly-tainted data.
+You can use the tainted() function of the Scalar::Util module, available
+from CPAN (or included with Perl since release 5.8.0).
+See also L<perlsec/"Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data">.
 
 =head2 What's a closure?
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
index c093b77..bf5d7a6 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -954,8 +954,7 @@ in L<perlfunc/fork>.
 
 There are a number of excellent interfaces to SQL databases.  See the
 DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/DBD .
-A lot of information on this can be found at 
-http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/
+A lot of information on this can be found at http://dbi.perl.org/
 
 =head2 How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
index e3488e5..cdc00d6 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/10/31 23:54:56 $)
+perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION