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+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
+# This subroutine returns true if its argument is tainted, false otherwise.
+#
+
+sub tainted {
+ local($@);
+ eval { kill 0 * $_[0] };
+ $@ =~ /^Insecure/;
+}
+
+1;