+> You're not the first person to report a problem here with older versions
+> of perl and pagespec tainting. I suspect that this would work around it:
+ return eval possibly_foolish_untaint(pagespec_translate($spec));
+> I'm _very_ uncomfortable putting that in the shipping version of ikiwiki,
+> because pagespecs are potentially _insanely_ dangerous, given how they're
+> evaled and all. The tainting is the only sanity check there is that
+> `pagespec_translate` manages to clean up any possibly harmful perl code
+> in a pagespec. It's good to have belt and suspenders here.
+>
+> For all I know, older versions of perl are keeping it tainted because
+> `pagespec_translate` is somehow broken under old versions of perl and is
+> in fact not fully untainting the pagespec. Ok, probably not, it's more
+> likely that some of the regexps in there don't manage to clear the taint
+> flag with old versions of perl, while still doing a perfectly ok job of
+> sanitising the pagespec.
+>
+> I suppose that the version of perl ($^V) could be checked and the untaint
+> only be called for the old version. Though it seems it would be better
+> to try to debug this some first. Maybe instrumenting `pagespec_translate`
+> with calls to Scalar::Utils's tainted() function and seeing which parts
+> of pagespecs arn't getting untainted would be a good start.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]
+
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+