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0 pointsImNotTheNSA6y ago0 comments

then it calls the Perl implementation... is there some nuance of perl that would cause a problem with that?

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They're jokingly positing a loop: libc shells to perl, perl implements the function via libc call, which shells to perl... and so on.

So if Perl uses libc, which shells put to perl, which uses libc... get it? :)

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0 pointsImNotTheNSA6y ago0 comments

then it calls the Perl implementation... is there some nuance of perl that would cause a problem with that?

They're jokingly positing a loop: libc shells to perl, perl implements the function via libc call, which shells to perl... and so on.

So if Perl uses libc, which shells put to perl, which uses libc... get it? :)

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