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Opcode(3pm)            Perl Programmers Reference Guide            Opcode(3pm)

NAME
       Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
SYNOPSIS
         use Opcode;
DESCRIPTION
       Perl code is always compiled into an internal format before execution.
       Evaluating perl code (e.g. via "eval" or "do 'file'") causes the code
       to be compiled into an internal format and then, provided there was no
       error in the compilation, executed.  The internal format is based on
       many distinct opcodes.
       By default no opmask is in effect and any code can be compiled.
       The Opcode module allow you to define an operator mask to be in effect
       when perl next compiles any code.  Attempting to compile code which
       contains a masked opcode will cause the compilation to fail with an
       error. The code will not be executed.
NOTE
       The Opcode module is not usually used directly. See the ops pragma and
       Safe modules for more typical uses.
WARNING
       The authors make no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the
       suitability of this software for safety or security purposes.
       The authors shall not in any case be liable for special, incidental,
       consequential, indirect or other similar damages arising from the use
       of this software.
       Your mileage will vary. If in any doubt do not use it.
Operator Names and Operator Lists
       The canonical list of operator names is the contents of the array
       PL_op_name defined and initialised in file opcode.h of the Perl source
       distribution (and installed into the perl library).
       Each operator has both a terse name (its opname) and a more verbose or
       recognisable descriptive name. The opdesc function can be used to
       return a list of descriptions for a list of operators.
       Many of the functions and methods listed below take a list of operators
       as parameters. Most operator lists can be made up of several types of
       element. Each element can be one of
       an operator name (opname)
               Operator names are typically small lowercase words like
               enterloop, leaveloop, last, next, redo etc. Sometimes they are
               rather cryptic like gv2cv, i_ncmp and ftsvtx.
       an operator tag name (optag)
               Operator tags can be used to refer to groups (or sets) of
               operators.  Tag names always begin with a colon. The Opcode
               module defines several optags and the user can define others
               using the define_optag function.
       a negated opname or optag
               An opname or optag can be prefixed with an exclamation mark,
               e.g., !mkdir.  Negating an opname or optag means remove the
               corresponding ops from the accumulated set of ops at that
               point.
       an operator set (opset)
               An opset as a binary string of approximately 44 bytes which
               holds a set or zero or more operators.
               The opset and opset_to_ops functions can be used to convert
               from a list of operators to an opset and vice versa.
               Wherever a list of operators can be given you can use one or
               more opsets.  See also Manipulating Opsets below.
Opcode Functions
       The Opcode package contains functions for manipulating operator names
       tags and sets. All are available for export by the package.
       opcodes In a scalar context opcodes returns the number of opcodes in
               this version of perl (around 350 for perl-5.7.0).
               In a list context it returns a list of all the operator names.
               (Not yet implemented, use @names = opset_to_ops(full_opset).)
       opset (OP, ...)
               Returns an opset containing the listed operators.
       opset_to_ops (OPSET)
               Returns a list of operator names corresponding to those
               operators in the set.
       opset_to_hex (OPSET)
               Returns a string representation of an opset. Can be handy for
               debugging.
       full_opset
               Returns an opset which includes all operators.
       empty_opset
               Returns an opset which contains no operators.
       invert_opset (OPSET)
               Returns an opset which is the inverse set of the one supplied.
       verify_opset (OPSET, ...)
               Returns true if the supplied opset looks like a valid opset (is
               the right length etc) otherwise it returns false. If an
               optional second parameter is true then verify_opset will croak
               on an invalid opset instead of returning false.
               Most of the other Opcode functions call verify_opset
               automatically and will croak if given an invalid opset.
       define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET)
               Define OPTAG as a symbolic name for OPSET. Optag names always
               start with a colon ":".
               The optag name used must not be defined already (define_optag
               will croak if it is already defined). Optag names are global to
               the perl process and optag definitions cannot be altered or
               deleted once defined.
               It is strongly recommended that applications using Opcode
               should use a leading capital letter on their tag names since
               lowercase names are reserved for use by the Opcode module. If
               using Opcode within a module you should prefix your tags names
               with the name of your module to ensure uniqueness and thus
               avoid clashes with other modules.
       opmask_add (OPSET)
               Adds the supplied opset to the current opmask. Note that there
               is currently no mechanism for unmasking ops once they have been
               masked.  This is intentional.
       opmask  Returns an opset corresponding to the current opmask.
       opdesc (OP, ...)
               This takes a list of operator names and returns the
               corresponding list of operator descriptions.
       opdump (PAT)
               Dumps to STDOUT a two column list of op names and op
               descriptions.  If an optional pattern is given then only lines
               which match the (case insensitive) pattern will be output.
               It's designed to be used as a handy command line utility:
                       perl -MOpcode=opdump -e opdump
                       perl -MOpcode=opdump -e 'opdump Eval'
Manipulating Opsets
       Opsets may be manipulated using the perl bit vector operators & (and),
       | (or), ^ (xor) and ~ (negate/invert).
       However you should never rely on the numerical position of any opcode
       within the opset. In other words both sides of a bit vector operator
       should be opsets returned from Opcode functions.
       Also, since the number of opcodes in your current version of perl might
       not be an exact multiple of eight, there may be unused bits in the last
       byte of an upset. This should not cause any problems (Opcode functions
       ignore those extra bits) but it does mean that using the ~ operator
       will typically not produce the same 'physical' opset 'string' as the
       invert_opset function.
TO DO (maybe)
           $bool = opset_eq($opset1, $opset2)  true if opsets are logically eqiv
           $yes = opset_can($opset, @ops)      true if $opset has all @ops set
           @diff = opset_diff($opset1, $opset2) => ('foo', '!bar', ...)
Predefined Opcode Tags
       :base_core
                null stub scalar pushmark wantarray const defined undef
                rv2sv sassign
                rv2av aassign aelem aelemfast aelemfast_lex aslice av2arylen
                rv2hv helem hslice each values keys exists delete aeach akeys avalues
                boolkeys reach rvalues rkeys
                preinc i_preinc predec i_predec postinc i_postinc postdec i_postdec
                int hex oct abs pow multiply i_multiply divide i_divide
                modulo i_modulo add i_add subtract i_subtract
                left_shift right_shift bit_and bit_xor bit_or negate i_negate
                not complement
                lt i_lt gt i_gt le i_le ge i_ge eq i_eq ne i_ne ncmp i_ncmp
                slt sgt sle sge seq sne scmp
                substr vec stringify study pos length index rindex ord chr
                ucfirst lcfirst uc lc fc quotemeta trans transr chop schop chomp schomp
                match split qr
                list lslice splice push pop shift unshift reverse
                cond_expr flip flop andassign orassign dorassign and or dor xor
                warn die lineseq nextstate scope enter leave
                rv2cv anoncode prototype coreargs
                entersub leavesub leavesublv return method method_named -- XXX loops via recursion?
                leaveeval -- needed for Safe to operate, is safe without entereval
       :base_mem
            These memory related ops are not included in :base_core because
            they can easily be used to implement a resource attack (e.g.,
            consume all available memory).
                concat repeat join range
                anonlist anonhash
            Note that despite the existence of this optag a memory resource
            attack may still be possible using only :base_core ops.
            Disabling these ops is a very heavy handed way to attempt to
            prevent a memory resource attack. It's probable that a specific
            memory limit mechanism will be added to perl in the near future.
       :base_loop
            These loop ops are not included in :base_core because they can
            easily be used to implement a resource attack (e.g., consume all
            available CPU time).
                grepstart grepwhile
                mapstart mapwhile
                enteriter iter
                enterloop leaveloop unstack
                last next redo
                goto
       :base_io
            These ops enable filehandle (rather than filename) based input and
            output. These are safe on the assumption that only pre-existing
            filehandles are available for use.  Usually, to create new
            filehandles other ops such as open would need to be enabled, if
            you don't take into account the magical open of ARGV.
                readline rcatline getc read
                formline enterwrite leavewrite
                print say sysread syswrite send recv
                eof tell seek sysseek
                readdir telldir seekdir rewinddir
       :base_orig
            These are a hotchpotch of opcodes still waiting to be considered
                gvsv gv gelem
                padsv padav padhv padany
                once
                rv2gv refgen srefgen ref
                bless -- could be used to change ownership of objects (reblessing)
                pushre regcmaybe regcreset regcomp subst substcont
                sprintf prtf -- can core dump
                crypt
                tie untie
                dbmopen dbmclose
                sselect select
                pipe_op sockpair
                getppid getpgrp setpgrp getpriority setpriority localtime gmtime
                entertry leavetry -- can be used to 'hide' fatal errors
                entergiven leavegiven
                enterwhen leavewhen
                break continue
                smartmatch
                custom -- where should this go
       :base_math
            These ops are not included in :base_core because of the risk of
            them being used to generate floating point exceptions (which would
            have to be caught using a $SIG{FPE} handler).
                atan2 sin cos exp log sqrt
            These ops are not included in :base_core because they have an
            effect beyond the scope of the compartment.
                rand srand
       :base_thread
            These ops are related to multi-threading.
                lock
       :default
            A handy tag name for a reasonable default set of ops.  (The
            current ops allowed are unstable while development continues. It
            will change.)
                :base_core :base_mem :base_loop :base_orig :base_thread
            This list used to contain :base_io prior to Opcode 1.07.
            If safety matters to you (and why else would you be using the
            Opcode module?)  then you should not rely on the definition of
            this, or indeed any other, optag!
       :filesys_read
                stat lstat readlink
                ftatime ftblk ftchr ftctime ftdir fteexec fteowned fteread
                ftewrite ftfile ftis ftlink ftmtime ftpipe ftrexec ftrowned
                ftrread ftsgid ftsize ftsock ftsuid fttty ftzero ftrwrite ftsvtx
                fttext ftbinary
                fileno
       :sys_db
                ghbyname ghbyaddr ghostent shostent ehostent      -- hosts
                gnbyname gnbyaddr gnetent snetent enetent         -- networks
                gpbyname gpbynumber gprotoent sprotoent eprotoent -- protocols
                gsbyname gsbyport gservent sservent eservent      -- services
                gpwnam gpwuid gpwent spwent epwent getlogin       -- users
                ggrnam ggrgid ggrent sgrent egrent                -- groups
       :browse
            A handy tag name for a reasonable default set of ops beyond the
            :default optag.  Like :default (and indeed all the other optags)
            its current definition is unstable while development continues. It
            will change.
            The :browse tag represents the next step beyond :default. It it a
            superset of the :default ops and adds :filesys_read the :sys_db.
            The intent being that scripts can access more (possibly sensitive)
            information about your system but not be able to change it.
                :default :filesys_read :sys_db
       :filesys_open
                sysopen open close
                umask binmode
                open_dir closedir -- other dir ops are in :base_io
       :filesys_write
                link unlink rename symlink truncate
                mkdir rmdir
                utime chmod chown
                fcntl -- not strictly filesys related, but possibly as dangerous?
       :subprocess
                backtick system
                fork
                wait waitpid
                glob -- access to Cshell via <`rm *`>
       :ownprocess
                exec exit kill
                time tms -- could be used for timing attacks (paranoid?)
       :others
            This tag holds groups of assorted specialist opcodes that don't
            warrant having optags defined for them.
            SystemV Interprocess Communications:
                msgctl msgget msgrcv msgsnd
                semctl semget semop
                shmctl shmget shmread shmwrite
       :load
            This tag holds opcodes related to loading modules and getting
            information about calling environment and args.
                require dofile
                caller runcv
       :still_to_be_decided
                chdir
                flock ioctl
                socket getpeername ssockopt
                bind connect listen accept shutdown gsockopt getsockname
                sleep alarm -- changes global timer state and signal handling
                sort -- assorted problems including core dumps
                tied -- can be used to access object implementing a tie
                pack unpack -- can be used to create/use memory pointers
                hintseval -- constant op holding eval hints
                entereval -- can be used to hide code from initial compile
                reset
                dbstate -- perl -d version of nextstate(ment) opcode
       :dangerous
            This tag is simply a bucket for opcodes that are unlikely to be
            used via a tag name but need to be tagged for completeness and
            documentation.
                syscall dump chroot
SEE ALSO
       ops -- perl pragma interface to Opcode module.
       Safe -- Opcode and namespace limited execution compartments
AUTHORS
       Originally designed and implemented by Malcolm Beattie,
       mbeattie AT sable.uk as part of Safe version 1.
       Split out from Safe module version 1, named opcode tags and other
       changes added by Tim Bunce.

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