perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for December 2011

64	[perl #106538] Carp is missing a dot

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #106538] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 19, 2011 at 3:56 am
Mar 26, 2012 at 5:38 pm

34	Core/CPAN sync report

Below is a cleaned up version of the output from core-cpan-diff. These are modules where the core and CPAN versions differ in some ways. I suspect that in some cases, the differences are intentional, ...

Dave Rolsky
Dec 14, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Dec 23, 2011 at 8:25 pm

28	Why can't open() do an exclusive open?

Is there any reason why can't open do an exclusive open? Of course that's possible with sysopen and O_EXCL, but that's plain ugly and hard to explain to newcomers. I'm having the impression that the ...

Leon Timmermans
Dec 5, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Dec 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm

26	[perl #96672] Carp::croak doesn't quite replace die - missing <fh> line # phrase

Would it be possible for you to prepare this as a patch to dist/Carp/lib/Carp.pm? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 14, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Sep 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm

25	[perl #107326] perl's unicode conversion fails when iconv succeeds

# New Ticket Created by Linda Walsh # Please include the string: [perl #107326] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Linda Walsh
Dec 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Jan 4, 2012 at 10:09 pm

19	[perl #93428] potential race condition when mixing signals and select()

This is *not* a perl bug. but a fundamental difficulty in dealing with signals. I suggest closing this ticket. Leon

Leon Timmermans via RT
Dec 11, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Jun 5, 2012 at 8:29 pm

17	Is PL_check thread-safe?

Please correct me if I’m wrong: PL_check is global. That means the dozens of modules that do this: old_ck_thingy = PL_check[OP_THINGY]; PL_check[OP_THINGY] = my_ck_thingy; are not thread-safe, right? ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 11, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Jan 17, 2012 at 4:54 pm

17	questions about saving stacks

Hi all, (Sorry about the previous incomplete post.) I was looking at techniques to save perl stacks and restore them. I have looked at perlguts (and other docs) and code back and forth for a while ...

Kamal Khatri
Dec 1, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Dec 20, 2011 at 8:51 am

16	[perl #105850] $_ does not work as expected within "given" block

This is a known issue, #67694. given does an implicit ‘my $_’. See also ticket #90018 and ticket #53186 (marked as resolved, even though it isn’t). RJBS: Would you be adverse to changing ‘given’ to ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Dec 10, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Dec 18, 2011 at 3:39 pm

15	[perl #107000] Hint-hash copying can leak

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Father Chrysostomos
Dec 25, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Sep 24, 2012 at 3:50 pm

15	[perl #107262] Unmatched \Q \E in regexp should warn

# New Ticket Created by "Ed Avis" # Please include the string: [perl #107262] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Ed Avis
Dec 29, 2011 at 10:49 am
Jan 3, 2012 at 8:38 am

15	is interpreter deliberately picking wrong case to cause a problem?

If I have : Not enough arguments for map at -e line 1, near "map;" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. ---- By default, perl takes an unquoted word as possibly being a 'reserved word', ...

Linda W
Dec 16, 2011 at 6:43 am
Dec 18, 2011 at 1:38 am

14	[perl #22335] foreach auto dereference (feature request)

Does anyone wish to comment on this feature request? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 3, 2011 at 1:33 am
Oct 12, 2014 at 4:34 am

13	perl-5.14.3 is on the horizon

In theory, 5.14.3 comes out on the 14th. Currently, it will not, because there are zero commits in it. If anyone has created a meta-ticket or other resource for tracking their hopes for 5.14 cherry ...

Ricardo Signes
Dec 5, 2011 at 4:13 am
Feb 22, 2012 at 11:42 pm

13	What to do with POSIX::SigRt?

POSIX has the %SIGRT hash for a couple of years now (3609ea0d), but I'm not sure it should. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is exactly, it's pretty much %SIG except that it uses unsafe signals. ...

Leon Timmermans
Dec 31, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Jan 11, 2012 at 9:13 am

13	[perl #105700] system() returns -1 when $SIG{CHLD} in effect

# New Ticket Created by Rocco Caputo # Please include the string: [perl #105700] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Rocco Caputo
Dec 8, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Dec 31, 2011 at 7:39 pm

12	[perl #105278] Add warning for exists($a[0]) and delete($a[0])

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Eric Brine
Dec 4, 2011 at 9:47 am
Jul 24, 2012 at 3:18 am

12	[perl #106864] refcount for anonymous sub is 2 instead of 1

# New Ticket Created by Olivier MenguÃƒÂ© # Please include the string: [perl #106864] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Olivier Mengué
Dec 22, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Jan 11, 2012 at 4:02 pm

12	[perl #28121] Perl 5.8 on AIX 5.2

Since the version of Perl described in this RT is no longer supported, there's probably not much we can do with this ticket. However, it would be good if someone familiar with current Perl on AIX ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 17, 2011 at 3:13 am
Dec 22, 2011 at 2:38 pm

11	[perl #105906] Bleadperl d164302a breaks Lexical::Var under threads+mad

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #105906] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 11, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Sep 13, 2013 at 7:50 am

11	[perl #79028] [PATCH] Add use_versioned_archname to Configure

This proposal hasn't received any feedback (at least not in RT). Since it would require preparation of a patch for submission to the metaconfig repository, we should first ask, "What do people think ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 17, 2011 at 3:23 am
Feb 5, 2013 at 11:03 pm

11	[perl #96208] UIDs and GIDs should not be cached

Is there any way we could get a small program that demonstrates this bug? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 6, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Feb 18, 2012 at 11:56 pm

11	[perl #91514] Wrong error message for default outside a topicalizer

What would be a better message -- and how should it be classified according to the scale in 'pod/perldiag.pod'? (W) A warning (optional). (D) A deprecation (enabled by default). (S) A severe warning ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 15, 2011 at 1:57 am
Dec 20, 2011 at 7:30 am

11	Three patches to version code in the core

Attached are three patches: 1) Reverts the incompatible change to UNIVERSAL::VERSION such that once again it will return the stringified version object representation of $CLASS::VERSION. A long ...

John Peacock
Dec 8, 2011 at 2:39 am
Dec 12, 2011 at 7:46 pm

10	[perl #106282] Bleadperl v5.15.5-306-gb50b205 breaks RIBASUSHI/namespace-clean-0.21.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #106282] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Dec 15, 2011 at 7:12 am
Dec 21, 2011 at 1:03 pm

10	[perl #105784] version.pm blows away locale

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Ricardo SIGNES
Dec 9, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Dec 19, 2011 at 11:48 am

9	perl's hash randomization in the news

The researchers concluded that the best way of avoiding the problem is to use randomised hash functions such as those used in Perl, which were included after a security conference paper on the ...

Greg Lindahl
Dec 29, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Dec 31, 2011 at 2:32 pm

9	[PATCH]: Implement POSIX::strptime()

Find attached an initial attempt at wrapping strptime() by core's POSIX.xs. I imagine it'll need some smoking on e.g. MSWin32 or other odd platforms yet before it makes it into blead. -- Paul ...

Paul LeoNerd Evans
Dec 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Dec 30, 2011 at 8:54 pm

9	what is formal hash complexity, by the way?

Hi porters, I am sorry for raising this question, in some sence it could be considered as implementation detail question, hence looks like porters question. The web sometimes says that hashes are ...

Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR **
Dec 24, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Dec 27, 2011 at 1:12 pm

9	[perl #77304] memory leak in (?<variablename>)

I think I'm experiencing the same bug. I've narrowed it down to a simple script, which you can find attached here. If I can provide more help by giving more details or anything else, please let me ...

Johannes Plunien via RT
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:16 am
Dec 13, 2011 at 6:15 pm

9	weak references and global destruction

Karl hit a problem when refactoring - t/re/regexp_qr_embed_thr.t started failing with panic: del_backref during global destruction. After a lot of digging, it turns out that this isn't a regular ...

Nicholas Clark
Dec 1, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Dec 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm

9	deprecation proposal: Pod::LaTeX (and Pod::Parser)

We've discussed several times on this list the removal of Pod::Parser from the core, as it's poorly understood and mostly abandoned for new Pod-handling code. This summer, Marc Green did an admirable ...

Ricardo Signes
Dec 3, 2011 at 12:13 am
Dec 6, 2011 at 1:44 am

8	[perl #100374] Can't build 5.14.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 with user-installed gcc

Can anyone confirm whether this has indeed been fixed in blead? Is it important enough to be cherry-picked for any possible 5.14.3? Thank you very much. Jim keenan

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 6, 2011 at 2:13 am
Apr 22, 2013 at 2:51 am

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 39 commits. 11 unique authors. 9 unique committers. 96 files changed, 6052 insertions(+), 3910 deletions(-) Net code removal: ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Dec 3, 2011 at 2:08 am
Dec 31, 2011 at 2:08 am

8	[perl #84314] MAD produces invalid XML

I'm probably not the only one who has to ask: "What does 'MAD' mean in this context?" Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 19, 2011 at 12:39 am
Dec 19, 2011 at 9:10 am

8	[perl #105232] Tied filehandles need a PerlIO::get_layers interface

# New Ticket Created by David Golden # Please include the string: [perl #105232] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David Golden
Dec 3, 2011 at 3:02 am
Dec 4, 2011 at 11:02 am

7	[perl #82912] upgrade broke XS modules

Going from non-threaded to threaded perl sounds like one of the more drastic changes in configuration that one can make, even within a single major version. So this breakage does not seem surprising. ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 3, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Aug 31, 2013 at 10:32 am

7	ANNOUNCE: Perl 5.15.6 is released

Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the beasts and the speech of the leaves of the ...

Dave Rolsky
Dec 20, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Dec 24, 2011 at 7:23 am

7	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-threaded #228

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-threaded/228/changes Changes: [nick] Porting/expand-macro.pl needs to avoid "macro redefined" errors. ------------------------------------------ ...

Dennis Kaarsemaker
Dec 7, 2011 at 10:51 am
Dec 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm

7	[PATCH] perl -d bugfixes and tests

Hi all, this patch fixes some bugs in "perl -d" and adds some regression tests (for the bugfixes and for better test coverage). It can be found as several commits here: ...

Shlomi Fish
Dec 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Dec 3, 2011 at 1:07 pm

6	[perl #33688] PathTools fails "make install" under 5.6.1

PathTools is not, AFAIK, included in the Perl core distribution. So bugs therein should be filed at its bug tracker: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=PathTools ExtUtils::MakeMaker is ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 3, 2011 at 12:23 am
Feb 4, 2013 at 2:51 am

6	[perl #106642] We may be exporting a little too much PerlIO

# New Ticket Created by Leon Timmermans # Please include the string: [perl #106642] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Leon Timmermans
Dec 20, 2011 at 12:53 am
Dec 23, 2011 at 9:56 pm

6	[perl #105922] Questionable package name validation

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #105922] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 11, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Dec 16, 2011 at 6:18 am

6	DAVEM TPF bug-grant report #90,#91

(this report covers two weeks) Spent the last two weeks working on making embedded regexes not recompile any code blocks. I have this mostly working now, barring a leak which I'm currently tracking ...

Dave Mitchell
Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Dec 12, 2011 at 8:28 pm

6	[perl #77680] [PATCH] document list of special subs in perlsub

The patch looks good to me, but would benefit from more eyeballs. In 'perlsub' I see, "Subroutines whose names are in all upper case are reserved to the Perl core, as are modules whose names are in ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 10, 2011 at 2:40 am
Dec 12, 2011 at 8:15 pm

6	[perl #105280] wishlist: \$hash{nonexistent} should defer autovivification

# New Ticket Created by David Nicol # Please include the string: [perl #105280] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David Nicol
Dec 4, 2011 at 9:48 am
Dec 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm

6	Contentious changes code freeze in next release - 5.15.6

Hi porters, I'll be the release manager for the next release, 5.15.6, which is scheduled to happen on December 20 (two weeks from today). This release is the last release for contentious changes. ...

Dave Rolsky
Dec 6, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Dec 7, 2011 at 3:02 am

5	[perl #38387] Net::Cmd does not handle CR and LF correctly

My layperson's impression is that the original poster's criticism of Net::Cmd::datasend() with respect to RFC 2821 Sec 2.3.7 is correct. (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt). I modified the patch to ...

James E Keenan via RT
Dec 4, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Sep 8, 2013 at 2:45 am

5	[perl #16249] possible invalid syntax error generated

I believe this is happening because toke.c isn't tracking things as well as it should be. The attached patch 'fixes' this, but I question whether it's right or not. It fixes the issue by overwriting ...

Matthew Horsfall via RT
Dec 11, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Jul 3, 2012 at 6:04 am

5	cross-compilation support

Hi p5p, I've tried to cross-compile 5.14.2 and 5.15.6 under Ubuntu 11.10 x64 for my Synology NAS DS211j which is an ARM platform and ships with Perl 5.8.4 but without a compiler. Synology provides an ...

Alexander Hartmaier
Dec 31, 2011 at 2:03 am
Feb 5, 2012 at 7:34 pm

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