perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for January 2005

48	[RFC] More core integration

Hi, As outlined in another thread, I'm currently creating a patchset to add CPANPLUS to the core. This has a few consequences however, which would necessitate (or prefer) the adoptation of a few ...

Jos I. Boumans
Jan 19, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Apr 7, 2005 at 7:34 pm

37	[PATCH] libperl leaks a THREAD_KEY each time it is reloaded

Gisle Aas
Jan 5, 2005 at 11:21 am
Jan 28, 2005 at 9:51 pm

31	encoding neutral unpack

Since it seems my original patch didn't get through to the list, here is a repost with a patch to the latest version (so this includes the patch in the mail that DID get through to the list) This ...

Ton Hospel
Jan 22, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Apr 21, 2005 at 5:10 pm

23	[RFC] CPANPLUS core integration

Hi, in the attempt to generate a patch-set that would include CPANPLUS (and some abstracted out modules) to the core, i've run into the following problem: Making CPANPLUS (nonxs) Can't load module ...

Jos I. Boumans
Jan 18, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Jan 20, 2005 at 3:46 pm

17	lib/Config/Extensions.t fails on Win32

I currently have a bunch of tests in lib/Config/Extensions.t failing on Win32: not ok 11 - Encode::Byte was built not ok 17 - Errno was built not ok 21 - Encode::EBCDIC was built not ok 39 - ...

Steve Hay
Jan 4, 2005 at 11:55 am
Jan 17, 2005 at 6:24 pm

13	[perl #33927] [BUG] Coredump in 5.9.2 when evalling a certain string while in a coderf in @INC

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Kane @ coke . xs4all . nl
Jan 25, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Jan 28, 2005 at 3:59 am

13	uc($long_utf8_string) exhausts memory

Invoking uc() on a utf8-encoded string causes the uc op's target PV to be grown by an unreasonable amount. For example: $ ./perl -Ilib -MDevel::Peek -e'$a=("a"x 50)."\x{100}"; Dump uc $a' SV = ...

Dave Mitchell
Jan 11, 2005 at 9:07 pm
Jan 24, 2005 at 11:18 pm

13	Smoke [5.8.6] 23784 FAIL(M) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.8.6 patch 23784 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 40 ...

Steve Hay
Jan 13, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Jan 19, 2005 at 10:36 am

12	[perl #33734] unpack fails on utf-8 strings

# New Ticket Created by Marc Lehmann # Please include the string: [perl #33734] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Marc Lehmann
Jan 9, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Apr 28, 2006 at 4:04 pm

12	[perl #33948] configure checking echo

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Stephen
Jan 27, 2005 at 5:45 am
Jan 31, 2005 at 2:58 pm

12	Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

My bad. I left in a / when I unified the VMS tool_xsubpp(). Its better solved by changing $(XSUBPPDIR)/xsbupp to $(XSUBPPDIR)$(DFSEP)xsubpp. The only other difference is VMS had this: XSUBPPDEPS = ...

Michael G Schwern
Jan 2, 2005 at 12:39 am
Jan 6, 2005 at 12:51 pm

11	[PATCH] BigInt mbi_rand.t failings

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, Fix, fix, fix, fix the stupid bugs... the attached patch *should* cure the mbi_rand.t failings that are so common after the v1.74 integration of BigInt. I say ...

Tels
Jan 25, 2005 at 5:05 pm
Feb 10, 2005 at 4:41 pm

11	[perl #33998] [PATCH] Support for GNU/kFreeBSD

# New Ticket Created by rmh@debian.org # Please include the string: [perl #33998] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Rmh @ debian . org
Jan 31, 2005 at 7:38 am
Feb 1, 2005 at 3:20 pm

11	[perl #33990] setuid perl security issues

# New Ticket Created by "KF (Lists)" # Please include the string: [perl #33990] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

$KF $Lists$$

KF $Lists$
Jan 30, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Jan 31, 2005 at 10:38 pm

11	[OT] *@perl.com blacklisted by RBL

Porters, Long time no see. This is Dan "the Encode Maintainer" Kogai. I am still busy "hacking" my new house, among other things so please give me some more time before I get back hacking Encode. And ...

Dan Kogai
Jan 13, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Jan 25, 2005 at 10:06 am

11	Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_07

Weird. I get no such problem on the testdrive machine (spe180). OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2, MMS V3.5. Don't know the MMK version, how do I check? Anyhow, you're right though. That is incorrect. I added the ...

Michael G Schwern
Jan 1, 2005 at 9:39 am
Jan 4, 2005 at 9:43 pm

10	[PATCH] Avoid segfault when pthread_key_create fails

Gisle Aas
Jan 5, 2005 at 9:10 am
Jan 6, 2005 at 11:58 am

9	Various sized dists

Hi, sorry for the long message, I am new here. I know it was mentioned earlier but looking at the archives I could not find any details lately about the issue of various sized distros in 5.10. So I'd ...

Gabor Szabo
Jan 2, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Jan 9, 2005 at 8:32 pm

9	Re: [PATCH] Remove Carp from warnings.pm

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, this is a followup to: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2004-10/msg00265.html As of today, blead still has Carp.pm used in warnings.pl ...

Tels
Jan 1, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Jan 7, 2005 at 4:55 pm

8	Smoke [5.9.2] 23863 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.9.2 patch 23863 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 15 hours ...

Steve Hay
Jan 23, 2005 at 2:50 pm
Jan 23, 2005 at 10:49 pm

8	[perl #33765] perlop: mention why 'print !!0' doesn't

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson # Please include the string: [perl #33765] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Dan Jacobson
Jan 11, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Jan 18, 2005 at 12:13 am

8	[perl #33764] perldoc -f my: add example of how to initialize more than one

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Dan Jacobson
Jan 11, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Jan 17, 2005 at 11:38 pm

7	unusual expression

This isn't really a bug report, it's just the first demonstration this year (in this forum) of my ignorance. I was poking around in the debugger to see what kind of slop perl would tolerate in ...

John P. Linderman
Jan 14, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Jan 18, 2005 at 4:43 pm

7	Re: FAIL TermReadKey-2.30 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread 4.0

Okay I have tracked this down to something strange going on with when using the 'CONIN$' file - the test code (pared greatly down of course does: use Term::ReadKey; use Fcntl; sysopen( IN, 'CONIN$', ...

Jonathan Stowe
Jan 14, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Jan 18, 2005 at 9:40 am

6	Finding mount points on Unixy platforms

Hi, According to http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9585 , the pure-perl part of Cwd.pm is having some problems on cygwin. I believe I see how to fix part of it (the disparity between how ...

Ken Williams
Jan 19, 2005 at 4:07 am
Feb 20, 2005 at 9:17 pm

6	Perl test coverage online

With a little help from Paul Johnson a while back, I was able to use Devel::Cover's gcov2perl to put Perl's current C test coverage online. You can check it out at ...

Steve Peters
Jan 24, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Jan 25, 2005 at 8:40 pm

6	removing dTHX's [2]

perlio.c: PerlIO_debug 1) Why does it call dTHX after it has called dSYS, which is exactly the same thing? 2) Should we change PerlIO_debug to accept the pTHX_ argument? even though it's a debug ...

Stas Bekman
Jan 12, 2005 at 9:58 pm
Jan 13, 2005 at 8:05 pm

5	Re: Smoke [5.8.6] 23856 FAIL(XF) hp-ux 11.11/64 (PA-2.0/32/1 cpu)

Op een grimmige winterdag (Sunday 23 January 2005 01:03),schreef Abe Timmerman: Manual rebuild/rerun: ok 65 # make = 'make' Stop. not ok 66 # make failed: 256 # Makefile out-of-date with respect to ...

Abe Timmerman
Jan 23, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Feb 5, 2005 at 3:32 pm

5	[perl #33945] Segmentation fault with deep recursion in regex engine

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A. Pagaltzis
Jan 26, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Jan 30, 2005 at 2:06 pm

5	[perl #33928] chomp() fails after alarm(), `sleep`

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Perlbug20050125 . z . jp @ xoxy . net
Jan 25, 2005 at 8:01 pm
Jan 29, 2005 at 4:43 pm

5	[perl #33942] perlre: /ms: add $/ hint

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson # Please include the string: [perl #33942] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Dan Jacobson
Jan 26, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Jan 27, 2005 at 9:09 am

5	[perl #33892] Add Interix support

# New Ticket Created by Todd Vierling # Please include the string: [perl #33892] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Todd Vierling
Jan 21, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Jan 24, 2005 at 10:07 am

5	Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 23792 FAIL(F) osf1 V5.1 (21264A)/4 cpu)

Do you think that these might have something to do with change 23791 which removed some, now dead, that was protected by #ifdef __osf__ http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=23791 or ...

Nicholas Clark
Jan 14, 2005 at 8:23 pm
Jan 22, 2005 at 10:57 pm

5	Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 23792 FAIL(M) openvms V7.2 (VAX/2 cpu)

Op een grimmige winterdag (Friday 14 January 2005 02:49),schreef abe@ztreet.demon.nl: A manual build on this machine shows: Making attrs (dynamic) Writing Descrip.MMS for attrs cp attrs.pm ...

Abe Timmerman
Jan 14, 2005 at 11:06 am
Jan 18, 2005 at 4:23 am

5	removing dTHX's [3] other PerlIO_ functions

The rest of PERLIO_* functions from perlio.c. All call dTHX PerlIO_importFILE PerlIO_exportFILE PerlIO_releaseFILE PerlIO_getname PerlIO_fdopen PerlIO_open PerlIO_reopen PerlIO_getc PerlIO_ungetc ...

Stas Bekman
Jan 12, 2005 at 10:16 pm
Jan 13, 2005 at 9:48 pm

5	Configure-ation for relocatable perl

I'm trying to work out how to amend Configure to deal with relocatable perl binaries. In theory it seems quite simple - ask "do you want a relocatable perl" shortly after the prefix question, and if ...

Nicholas Clark
Jan 10, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Jan 12, 2005 at 11:15 pm

5	Which file does Special Variables ($\|, $% etc) parsing?

Hi, I am working on porting Perl onto NetWare. I need help for the below: Specifically, can someone tell me where the Special Variables like $|, $%, $$, $_ etc are parsed? Like which file defines the ...

Ananth Kesari
Jan 11, 2005 at 6:36 am
Jan 11, 2005 at 11:44 pm

5	[perl #33689] no warning that variables names cannot contain NUL bytes

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #33689] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Jan 5, 2005 at 10:00 pm
Jan 6, 2005 at 6:10 pm

5	dXSTARG vs dXSTARGET

xsutils.c uses a lot of constructs like this: XS(XS_attributes__warn_reserved) { dXSARGS; #ifdef dXSTARGET dXSTARGET; #else SV * TARG = sv_newmortal(); #endif dXSTARGET doesn't seem to be defined ...

Nicholas Clark
Jan 1, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Jan 3, 2005 at 4:26 am

4	[perl #33936] segment fault when using split() in regexp with (??{...})

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王晓哲
Jan 26, 2005 at 1:19 pm
Apr 3, 2006 at 8:31 am

4	[perl #33989] timelocal not -w safe

# New Ticket Created by sune.karlsson@esi.oru.se # Please include the string: [perl #33989] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Sune . karlsson @ esi . oru . se
Jan 30, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Feb 8, 2005 at 5:43 pm

4	[perl #33914] Unknown error in compilation

# New Ticket Created by simonf@cshl.edu # Please include the string: [perl #33914] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Simonf @ cshl . edu
Jan 24, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Jan 29, 2005 at 5:10 pm

4	Re: [perl #33948] configure checking echo

Sorry, it does not work, I don't think there is a way, however, the message Configure displays saying there must not be a builtin echo when really there is no echo.exe should be changed. It is ...

Stephen
Jan 27, 2005 at 8:41 pm
Jan 28, 2005 at 10:47 pm

4	Building of miniperl failed

Hi, just downloaded perl-5.8.6 and tried to build it but the build fails with the following error. - -----------------8<----------------- `sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" miniperlmain.o` miniperlmain.c ~ ...

Tom Schindl
Jan 21, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Jan 26, 2005 at 11:21 am

4	Re: Bug#286905: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree makes setuid

Thanks Paul, both of these issues obviously stem from the same root cause--a race between generating a list of files, then manipulating that list. I don't really see that this is fixable outside of ...

Brendan O'Dea
Jan 12, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Jan 24, 2005 at 11:31 am

4	[perl #33796] perl5.8.4 segfault with env -i ...

# New Ticket Created by joshp-timbus.z.jp@xoxy.net # Please include the string: [perl #33796] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Joshp-timbus . z . jp @ xoxy . net
Jan 15, 2005 at 8:42 pm
Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38 am

4	[PATCH] Enhancement of assignment op

Is there any objections to use ||= op instead of writing the following code? @ary = (...) unless @ary; @ary or @ary = (...); This means enabling @ary ||= (...); as well as &&=, //=; The attached file ...

Shinya Hayakawa
Jan 13, 2005 at 3:24 pm
Jan 13, 2005 at 8:07 pm

4	killing USE_5005THREADS in blead?

I remember a discussion of removing the old USE_5005THREADS code in blead? Where is the chainsaw? -- Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------ Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- ...

Stas Bekman
Jan 12, 2005 at 9:10 pm
Jan 13, 2005 at 11:56 am

4	Maintaining a pool of Perl interpreters

I am looking for an example of maintaining a persistent pool of Perl interpreters for use from my C program. I've looked through the mod_perl source code, but am a bit overwhelmed and as far as I can ...

Jeremy Redburn
Jan 2, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Jan 7, 2005 at 6:18 pm

4	[perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6

# New Ticket Created by "Spain, Jeffry A." # Please include the string: [perl #33664] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Spain, Jeffry A.
Jan 4, 2005 at 2:14 am
Jan 4, 2005 at 1:53 pm

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