perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for September 2004

20	[perl #31421] Bad leap year calculation in Time::Local

# New Ticket Created by "Nathan H Zook" # Please include the string: [perl #31421] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nathan H Zook
Sep 1, 2004 at 4:55 pm
Sep 25, 2004 at 5:34 pm

15	Smoke [5.8.5] 23318 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.8.5 patch 23318 TANGAROA.uk.radan.com: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz(~1992 MHz) (x86/1 cpu) on MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP1 using cl version 12.00.8804 smoketime 4 hours ...

Steve Hay
Sep 10, 2004 at 9:58 pm
Sep 20, 2004 at 9:04 pm

15	Smoke [5.8.5] 23301 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.8.5 patch 23301 TANGAROA.uk.radan.com: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz(~1992 MHz) (x86/1 cpu) on MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP1 using cl version 12.00.8804 smoketime 4 hours ...

Steve Hay
Sep 9, 2004 at 9:58 pm
Sep 13, 2004 at 9:14 pm

11	[perl #31730] IO::File reads garbage from directory filehandles

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Alester @ flr . follett . com
Sep 27, 2004 at 12:48 am
Sep 30, 2004 at 9:33 pm

8	[perl #3589] [BUG bleadperl]

It appears that there is a problem with your regexp. /^((.)?a\2)+$/ The "^" is saying start at the beginning of the string, and none of the strings start with "dad". Also, the enclosed match must be ...

Steve Peters via RT
Sep 17, 2004 at 9:05 pm
May 27, 2008 at 2:08 pm

8	[perl #31586] utime does not reach expectations

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Btietze @ epo . org
Sep 15, 2004 at 2:36 pm
Sep 20, 2004 at 10:32 pm

8	Accessing original PV ptr in SV after sv_chop()

Is there any existing macro to access the original PV ptr in an SV after doing an sv_chop(), i.e. something like the following: #define SvPVXO(sv) (SvOOK(sv) ? SvPVX(sv) - SvIVX(sv) : SvPVX(sv)) I ...

Steve Hay
Sep 16, 2004 at 10:19 am
Sep 20, 2004 at 6:33 pm

7	[PATCH] require Carp; vs. use Carp; in warnings.pm

Moin, (the attached patch triggers an error I do not yet understand, please don't apply yet!) today I patched a lightweight module (Linux::Cpuinfo) to require Carp instead of using it to save a bit ...

Tels
Sep 24, 2004 at 6:54 pm
Oct 1, 2004 at 12:02 pm

7	[perl #31769] problem compiling perl 5.8.5 on Irix 6.5.21f

# New Ticket Created by "Mehrdad Ziaei" # Please include the string: [perl #31769] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Mehrdad Ziaei
Sep 29, 2004 at 10:47 pm
Sep 30, 2004 at 10:19 pm

6	Named anonymous subroutines

(See http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=304883 for more information) Despite the curious subject line, named anonymous subroutines are not oxymoronic and are quite helpful. Frequently I write ...

Ovid
Sep 10, 2004 at 3:40 am
Oct 2, 2004 at 6:31 pm

6	Confusion over PerlLIO_chsize()

I've just tried to build an XS module that uses PerlLIO_chsize() on Cygwin and got an error about "undefined reference to `_chsize'". The attached sample module reproduces this behaviour. Is chsize() ...

Steve Hay
Sep 3, 2004 at 10:39 am
Sep 7, 2004 at 9:01 am

5	(stat $file)[0] is not portable

the stat manpage talks about ctime not being portable: (*) The ctime field is non-portable. In particular, you cannot expect it to be a "creation time", see "Files and Filesystems" in perlport for ...

Stas Bekman
Sep 17, 2004 at 11:45 pm
Sep 21, 2004 at 4:14 am

5	[perl #31583] List::Util min() doesn't work with objects overloading <

# New Ticket Created by geoffr@gbdirect.co.uk # Please include the string: [perl #31583] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Geoffr @ gbdirect . co . uk
Sep 15, 2004 at 12:00 pm
Sep 15, 2004 at 6:00 pm

4	[perl #31455] Dup DATA filehandle, lose initial data

# New Ticket Created by Jim Carter # Please include the string: [perl #31455] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jim Carter
Sep 5, 2004 at 6:15 pm
Sep 30, 2012 at 2:17 am

4	[perl #31678] perlop doc error

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Gyepi @ praxis-sw . com
Sep 22, 2004 at 6:12 pm
Oct 8, 2004 at 10:10 pm

4	Perl5 Bug Summary

[ We're down a handful this week... but not by much... thanks to Steve Peters for going through some of the old ones and identifiying things that can be closed. ] Perl5 Bug Summary ...

Robert Spier
Sep 6, 2004 at 6:09 pm
Sep 27, 2004 at 3:54 pm

4	Artistic License Link

I'm looking for a link to the Perl Artistic License to use in my CPAN modules. I thought I'd raise the issue here because it affects links within the Perl sources themselves too. Up to now I have ...

Steve Hay
Sep 27, 2004 at 8:46 am
Sep 27, 2004 at 11:34 am

4

Cwd-2.21

l1:/pro/3gl/CPAN/Cwd-2.21 113 make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /pro/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/cwd......Use of uninitialized value in ...

H.Merijn Brand
Sep 2, 2004 at 9:33 am
Sep 4, 2004 at 2:23 am

3	[perl #31782] Alternation leaves positional variable set sometimes

# New Ticket Created by njs.perlbug@spameater.squawk.com # Please include the string: [perl #31782] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Njs . perlbug @ spameater . squawk . com
Sep 30, 2004 at 5:18 pm
Oct 3, 2004 at 11:05 am

3	eval {} in XS

While working on an XS module which allows plugins that can in turn be XS I needed to do the effective equivalent of eval {} around these plugin calls because they can do a croak and I needed to do ...

Ton Hospel
Sep 26, 2004 at 1:17 pm
Sep 28, 2004 at 12:29 pm

3	look-ahead/behind bug?

Hi, The following message was circulated here at work and no one can see a reason why this pattern substitution doesn't behave as expected. I suspect it's a bug. Can you please prove me wrong? Rob in ...

Robert William Leach
Sep 23, 2004 at 5:22 pm
Sep 24, 2004 at 7:49 am

3	New summarizer wanted

As I'm trying to catch up with P5P and the backlog of patches, I find myself without any more time to write the weekly P5P summaries. (And frankly, after two years of writing them, I'm beginning to ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Sep 23, 2004 at 8:15 am
Sep 24, 2004 at 7:40 am

3	$ENV{PATH} = "."; and -T case >> perlsec?

% perl -Tle '$ENV{PATH} = "."; qx[echo doh]' Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at -e line 1. I had a very long $PATH value and it took me some time to figure out what it ...

Stas Bekman
Sep 21, 2004 at 1:31 am
Sep 22, 2004 at 9:29 am

3	why 'perldoc' does not leaves some text files in TEMP directory?

I am using perl mostly on Win32 and noticed that 'perldoc' does not cleans TEMP directory properly. After I invoke 'perldoc win32::ole' two times there are 2 files left in c:\temp directory: ...

Konovalov, Vadim
Sep 20, 2004 at 10:37 am
Sep 21, 2004 at 1:33 am

3	[perl #31459] Bug in read()

# New Ticket Created by Chris Heath # Please include the string: [perl #31459] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Chris Heath
Sep 5, 2004 at 11:56 pm
Sep 19, 2004 at 8:17 am

3	Perl vs. multi-line UTF-16 scripts

Porters, Perl now accepts UTF-16 source. % perl foo-u.pl 5.008005 % hexdump -C foo-u.pl 00000000 00 70 00 72 00 69 00 6e 00 74 00 20 00 24 00 5d 00000010 00 2c 00 20 00 22 00 5c 00 6e 00 22 00 3b 00 ...

Dan Kogai
Sep 10, 2004 at 12:29 am
Sep 15, 2004 at 5:13 pm

3	Requesting for help:socket.pm error

Hello, We are using socket.pm and I am trying to send a packet of approximately 500 bytes, and Perl generated an error in socket.pm, do you know how to solve it? This is the error, Thanks Carlos ...

Chacon Solano, Carlos Andres
Sep 9, 2004 at 1:44 pm
Sep 9, 2004 at 6:03 pm

3	[perl #31485] Making DynaLoader (static) *** Error code 127

# New Ticket Created by Chivas # Please include the string: [perl #31485] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Chivas
Sep 8, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Sep 9, 2004 at 4:17 am

3	[PATCH] avoid unneeded lstats in glob()

Right now, glob is doing an lstat for each readdir, but only actually needs to if GLOB_MARK flag is set or GLOB_NOCHECK and GLOB_NOMAGIC are not. Since GLOB_NOMAGIC is on by default, this should ...

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Sep 8, 2004 at 8:33 pm
Sep 8, 2004 at 10:12 pm

3	Thread bug found

I have attached a small script we wrote to expose a more complex bug in the usage of Storable. Please see if you can reproduce it, or advise of a way around that will not raise this behaviour. Or ...

Yusuf Moola [Striata]
Sep 7, 2004 at 3:10 pm
Sep 7, 2004 at 7:35 pm

2	[perl #31767] Using $1 as a filehandle via open $1, "file" doesn't raise an exception

# New Ticket Created by Chris Kelly # Please include the string: [perl #31767] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Chris Kelly
Sep 29, 2004 at 4:44 pm
Aug 23, 2011 at 9:24 pm

2	chunk's tail overwrite

What does "chunk's tail overwrite" overwrite mean? It comes from malloc.c line 2074 (perl-5.8.5). An XS module of mine keeps crashing with the message: assertion botched (chunk's tail overwrite?): ...

Steve Hay
Sep 28, 2004 at 4:00 pm
Sep 29, 2004 at 7:44 am

2	[perl #16942] taint and regex problem

This seems to be OK in Perl 5.8.5. Has this fix been placed into the Perl 5.9 releases?

Steve Peters via RT
Sep 28, 2004 at 12:23 pm
Sep 28, 2004 at 4:20 pm

2	sort in list misbehaves

A coworker is having a problem with 5.8.4 (on Debian, if that matters), $ perl -le '@a=qw/2 3/;@a=("new", sort @a);print "@a"' 2 3 I cannot reproduce this under other versions. I think he'll be ...

Ovid
Sep 27, 2004 at 11:23 pm
Sep 28, 2004 at 4:40 am

2	how to install Storable with Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris 8

I've modified /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/CPAN/Config.pm like this: 'makepl_arg' = q[CC=/opt/csw/gcc3/bin/gcc LD=/opt/csw/gcc3/bin/gcc], but it still fails like this: cp Storable.pm blib/lib/Storable.pm ...

Kevin Rodgers
Sep 23, 2004 at 11:45 pm
Sep 24, 2004 at 2:04 pm

2	[perl #31676] Fail to compile

# New Ticket Created by Ken Chen # Please include the string: [perl #31676] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Ken Chen
Sep 22, 2004 at 5:33 pm
Sep 23, 2004 at 11:14 pm

2	[perl #31691] Endless loop in syntax check with 5.8.5

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Aspa @ merlot . kronodoc . fi
Sep 23, 2004 at 10:35 am
Sep 23, 2004 at 8:00 pm

2	[perl #31693] Useless use of numeric ge (>=) in void context (for loop)

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Tadman @ fmri . ca
Sep 23, 2004 at 3:00 pm
Sep 23, 2004 at 5:29 pm

2	How do I download latest sources for perl?

I followed instruction in http://dev.perl.org/perl5/source.html and issued a command rsync -auvz --delete rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ bleadperl/ However latest change in Changelog ...

Konovalov, Vadim
Sep 23, 2004 at 8:00 am
Sep 23, 2004 at 8:40 am

2	Fw: Smoke [5.9.2] 23330 FAIL(X) hp-ux 11.11/64 (PA-2.0/64/2 cpu)

23323 was still OK, 23330 was the next smoke on this machine after 23323 and the first to show this pattern Forwarded by "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl ----------------------- Original Message ...

H.Merijn Brand
Sep 22, 2004 at 8:54 am
Sep 23, 2004 at 7:54 am

2	threads and the debugger

Hi, I have a couple of issues with threads and the debugger... It appears that a threaded Perl program will run happily under the debugger, (which in itself is nice), but when you look at a variable ...

Richard Foley
Sep 21, 2004 at 12:45 pm
Sep 22, 2004 at 6:18 am

2	[perl #31578] perl5 docu bug - utime is _not_ equivalent to touch

# New Ticket Created by Alexander Stohr # Please include the string: [perl #31578] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Alexander Stohr
Sep 15, 2004 at 8:03 am
Sep 16, 2004 at 8:51 am

2	[perl #31445] use switch 'perl6' string matching

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Brendon @ brendon . com
Sep 4, 2004 at 3:15 am
Sep 14, 2004 at 11:30 pm

2	[perl #31546] Changing TZ problem with POSIX strftime

# New Ticket Created by Marc Wiatrowski # Please include the string: [perl #31546] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Marc Wiatrowski
Sep 13, 2004 at 3:03 pm
Sep 14, 2004 at 10:56 pm

2	YAPC::EU meetup on tuesday evening?

Is there any plan to meet up somewhere in Belfast on tuesday evening, much as we did in Paris last year? -- Alan Burlison --

Alan Burlison
Sep 13, 2004 at 12:23 pm
Sep 13, 2004 at 12:51 pm

2	[perl #21553] Re: Solaris Perl (fwd)

I think the following patch to README.solaris (suitable for both 5.8.6 and 5.9.x) addresses the matter adequately. --- perl-current/README.solaris Wed Jul 28 02:47:42 2004 +++ ...

Andy Dougherty
Sep 8, 2004 at 3:31 pm
Sep 13, 2004 at 11:42 am

2	[perl #31521] sv_vcatpvfn: buggy "%.2f"

# New Ticket Created by root@black.3wgraphics.net # Please include the string: [perl #31521] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Root @ black . 3wgraphics . net
Sep 10, 2004 at 5:37 pm
Sep 12, 2004 at 9:34 am

2	Storable & UTF8 error - need help understanding

Can someone who understands the internals of Storable explain to me under what conditions this error occurs: Frozen string corrupt - contains characters outside 0-255 In my app, I'm using nfreeze to ...

Dave Rolsky
Sep 11, 2004 at 5:25 pm
Sep 11, 2004 at 7:06 pm

2	[perl #31496] Problem in installing perl-5.8.5 in Tru64 4.0G machine

# New Ticket Created by sekhar n # Please include the string: [perl #31496] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Sekhar n
Sep 9, 2004 at 1:21 pm
Sep 10, 2004 at 9:16 am

2	Perl 5.6.1 for MorphOS released

Hello, all! Just for information: i've released Perl 5.6.1 for MorphOS. It can be found at ftp://gg.portail-e.com/geekgadgets/morphos/ppc/bin (binary archive) and ...

Pavel Fedin
Sep 2, 2004 at 6:19 am
Sep 2, 2004 at 1:14 pm

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