... Hm. I wonder if we should address this by forbidding NUL bytes in sysopen() filenames. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. -...
Chip Salzenberg
chip@...
Jan 2, 2000 9:23 am
60516
Noticed a small mismatch in the New Year in Date::Format of TimeDate-1.08. The code for %d and %e seem mismatch the documentation for them. %d numeric...
R. Bernstein
rocky@...
Jan 2, 2000 3:12 pm
60517
... This looks Solaris-specific. The fdopen() fails properly on Linux 2.0.36 with glibc. Sarathy gsar@......
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 2, 2000 5:21 pm
60518
... Can you describe the inadequecies you ran into in more detail? (I want to understand the issues better before we make any changes.) ... Did you know...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 2, 2000 7:23 pm
60519
... They were added in 5.004_50 as Class/Fields.pm and ISA.pm. ... Can you show some examples? Thanks. ... I have no interest in institutionalizing any fatal...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 2, 2000 7:42 pm
60520
In article <200001021725.JAA05334@...>, ... Under os2 it also doesn't give an error. However, adding a close FH does get an EACCES error....
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
sthoenna@...
Jan 2, 2000 8:48 pm
60521
... FYI, I can't reproduce it with 5.005_63 under Linux (Debian 2.1). Please report back if you see the problem under 5.005_63. Sarathy gsar@......
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 2, 2000 10:04 pm
60522
I don't understand the complaint, but I thought it might be of interest to someone else on this list. ... Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:10:41 -0700 (MST) From:...
Mark-Jason Dominus
mjd@...
Jan 3, 2000 2:08 am
60523
... MM-> new(\%att)->flush; ... MM-> new(\%att)->flush; ... Patch appended. Patch also fixes a glitch that happened in the repository in patch 4748. Patch goes...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Jan 3, 2000 9:15 am
60524
Hello, using CPAN.pm, I've noticed that there is no version defined in AutoLoader.pm in perl5.005_03. This causes CPAN to print the following line when listing...
Marek Rouchal DAT CAD...
marek.rouchal@...
Jan 3, 2000 1:27 pm
60525
Someone was complaining that stat()[8..10] didn't show units. ... +++ pod/perlfunc.pod Mon Jan 3 22:39:51 2000 @@ -4370,9 +4370,9 @@ 5 gid numeric...
Simon Cozens
simon@...
Jan 3, 2000 1:38 pm
60526
I've been trying to follow this discussion (really, I have) Is protected.pm a proposed solution to "Solving the Data Inheritance Problem" item in the Perl...
london@...
Jan 3, 2000 3:43 pm
60527
Nick: Thank-you for your response. Here are the outputs of some version commands. /users/Robert/downloads/Tk800.015 19 > gcc -v Reading specs from...
ETI INC (sobrika)
sobrika@...
Jan 3, 2000 3:51 pm
60528
Nick: I attempted to install Perl/Tk again this morning. I have included the output of the following commands in the attachment: perl Makefile.PL =>...
ETI INC (sobrika)
sobrika@...
Jan 3, 2000 5:00 pm
60529
Hi, ... I'm all for it. It _should_ have been caught using the taint checks which already exist, though... -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH |...
Matthias Urlichs
smurf@...
Jan 3, 2000 5:22 pm
60530
Hi, ... Because we have multiple inheritance and it's not always clear which new() to call, if any. Because Foo->new() might require different arguments than...
Matthias Urlichs
smurf@...
Jan 3, 2000 5:27 pm
60531
... Before answering in depth, let me confirm, that the next perl will have a version number on AutoLoader, either 5.57 or higher, so here is not the problem. ...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Jan 3, 2000 5:31 pm
60532
... Yes that is about it. ... Which involve fairly expensive file system search for the .pm files. (It is particularly painful on non-caching file systems like...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jan 3, 2000 6:06 pm
60533
... This appears to be a rather large can of worms to me. Modules in the perl distribution sometimes develop dependencies and/or version specific behaviors ...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 3, 2000 6:20 pm
60534
... Applied, thanks. Sarathy gsar@......
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jan 3, 2000 6:34 pm
60535
... Perhaps with "perl -U" as an escape mechanism. Tim....
Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Jan 3, 2000 6:46 pm
60536
... Granted:-) ... I'd say that modules that do not work with earlier versions of perl should be flagged with "use X.Y" in the module itself. The 'make test' ...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Jan 3, 2000 7:54 pm
60537
This patch makes File::Copy reloadable. With the current algorithm reloading can result in an endless loop that is difficult to debug. Thanks to Ulrich Pfeifer...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Jan 3, 2000 8:49 pm
60538
... Thanks. ... Well at least that gcc is compiled for Solaris7. ... That perl was compiled with gcc-2.8.1 - which is a nice "mature" gcc I think it is what I...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jan 3, 2000 9:31 pm
60539
... Makefile.PL transcript looks normal. make transcript shows you did not do a "make clean" and essentialy reused any .o files you had from before - which...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jan 3, 2000 9:41 pm
60540
... Ah, yes, quite so. I knew there was something I was missing! So that should be our primary reply to the reporter of the "bug". -- Chip Salzenberg...
Chip Salzenberg
chip@...
Jan 3, 2000 11:01 pm
60541
It seems the new File::Find (and find.pl) are no longer backward compatible with older scripts that used $topdev. (If I should submit this via perlbug, let me...
David Dyck
dcd@...
Jan 3, 2000 11:10 pm
60542
This piece of the RISKS digest caught my eye. The "open"software website won't let me in to check, unfortunately. Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:56:42 -0500 From:...
Bart Schuller
schuller@...
Jan 4, 2000 10:08 am
60543
... Here it is. Cheers, -- andreas ... +++ perl5.005_63..4751/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Tue Jan 4 09:29:02 2000 @@ -91,19 +91,11 @@ if ($Is_Cygwin) { require...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Jan 4, 2000 10:16 am
60544
... As do I. ... Sounds familiar. I haven't seen any comment from Larry, Sarathy, Tom, or similar. If this idea has any support from the core team, I suggest...