releases.)
----------------
+Version 5.003_13
+----------------
+
+The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of
+show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
+everyone up to a common working base.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP"
+ From: Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm
+ lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm
+ lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm
+ lib/Net/SNPP.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm lib/Net/Telnet.pm
+ lib/Net/Time.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Use binmode when doing binary FTP"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl
+ lib/open3.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/open2.t
+ t/lib/open3.t
+
+ Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500
+ Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH
+ ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+
+ Title: "flock() constants"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "small doc tweaks for _12"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_12
+----------------
+
+This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
+CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
+docs... it's a long list. And speaking of lists, here's a list of
+the more significant changes in 5.003_12:
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+ t/op/delete.t
+
+ Title: "Autovivify scalars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix nested closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Bug in formline "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm
+ lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym
+ old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
+
+ Title: "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Msg-ID: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c
+
+ Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg
+ eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
+ pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL
+ utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c
+ x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Title: "LynxOS support"
+ From: seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>
+ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/linux.sh
+
+ Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0
+ Files: hints/svr4.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*
+
+ TESTING
+
+ Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..."
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+ lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm
+ pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs"
+ From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com>
+ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Add File::Compare"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Add Tie::RefHash"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Put "splain" in utils."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL
+
+ Title: "Some h2ph fixes"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale"
+ From: Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod
+ pod/perlnews.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 25"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pod/perlipc.pod patch"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST
+ Files: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Title: "pod patches for English errors"
+ From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
+ Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "Misc doc updates"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
+ Files: pod/*
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_11
+----------------
+
+This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of
+value.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y
+
+ Title: "Don't reset $. on open()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't let expression context force return context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doio.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h
+
+ Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h
+ hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Less malloc in magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c
+
+ PORTABILITY AND TESTING
+
+ Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "hints/dgux.sh update"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500
+ Files: hints/dgux.sh
+
+ Title: "BUG in hints/hpux.sh"
+ From: Jeff McDougal <jmcdo@cris.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32A42C11.7FA2@cris.com>
+ Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:33:05 -0500
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH
+ pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c toke.c util.c
+ utils/perldoc.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "_10+ under OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "{in,ob}structive pods"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm
+ lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm lib/Net/protoent.pm
+ lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm
+ lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm
+
+ Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto>
+ Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ Title: "10+ debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.07"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
+ t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.08"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_10
+----------------
+
+This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and
+valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions
+ From: John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h
+
+ Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Better support for UVs"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Minor locale cleanups"
+ (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
+ 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c
+
+ Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
+
+ Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Namespace cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h
+
+ Title: "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Reliable signal patch"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs
+ os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL
+ os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL
+ os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h
+
+ Title: "Re: 5.003_09 and QNX"
+ From: nort@bottesini.harvard.edu (Norton Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp
+ t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
+
+ Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: t/op/sysio.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Minor patch to debugger"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT
+ Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Title: "Diagnostic cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
+ Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_09
+----------------
+
+This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
+many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable
+scoping and locale handling.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Lexical locales"
+ (make effectiveness of locales depend on C<use locale>)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: too many to list
+
+ Title: "Lexical scoping cleanup"
+ (tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the
+ new constructs and somewhat on the old)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c
+
+ Title: "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ t/op/sysio.t
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: proto.h
+
+ Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1,
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Msg-ID: <01BBD6EE.E915C860@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:27:06 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can"
+ From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT
+ Files: universal.c
+
+ Title: "die -> croak"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: embed.pl
+
+ Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym
+
+ Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Cleanups from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h
+
+ Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post-5.003_08"
+ From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
+ Msg-ID: <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c pp_ctl.c
+ utils/h2xs.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c
+ vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs
+ os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c
+
+ Title: "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs
+
+ Title: "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t
+
+ Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9611191854.AA19586@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:23 +0100
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/io_sock.t
+
+ Title: "Re: blib"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT
+ Files: lib/blib.pm
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perldiag documentation patch."
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "a missing perldiag entry"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch for pod/perlpod.pod"
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120235016.6666A-100000@hammer.chu.cam.ac.uk
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:54:41 +0000 (GMT)
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Title: "Update locale documentation."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ BUNDLED UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: x2p/util.c
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_08
+----------------
+
+This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
+many people. Here are some of the more significant changes.
+
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make C<no FOO> fail if C<unimport FOO> fails"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Bitwise op sign rationalization"
+ (Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
+ integer> is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h
+ pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t
+
+ Title: "Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures"
+ (Finally defines semantics of "my" in control expressions,
+ like the condition of "if" and "while". In all cases, scope
+ of a "my" var extends to the end of the entire control
+ structure. Also adds new construct "for my", which
+ automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits
+ its scope to the loop.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')"
+ (This patch makes Perl correctly ignore SvIVX() if either
+ NOK or POK is true, since SvIVX() may be a truncated or
+ overflowed version of the real value.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: opcode.pl
+
+ Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.y
+
+ Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: proto.h toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fixes for pack('w')"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
+
+ Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h
+
+ Title: "Fix for formline()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c
+ t/op/write.t
+
+ Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym"
+ (New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
+ avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c
+ perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c
+ x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h
+
+ Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym
+
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl
+ perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t
+ t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
+ vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "DJGPP patches (MS-DOS)"
+ From: "Douglas E. Wegscheid" <wegscd@whirlpool.com>
+ Files: doio.c dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c handy.h
+ lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Find.pm malloc.c perl.c
+ perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Plan 9 update"
+ From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@infinet.com>
+ Files: plan9/buildinfo plan9/config.plan9 plan9/exclude
+ plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm
+ lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.05"
+ From: Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Title: "Getopts::Std patch for hash support"
+ From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Std.pm
+
+ Title: "Kludge for bareword handles"
+ (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module"
+ From: hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Hammen)
+ Files: Configure config_h.SH ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+ ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t
+
+ BUNDLED UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_07
+----------------
+
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
+in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
+testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004.
+
+If it doesn't work for you, try
+
+ LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
+
+for Bourne shell users, or
+
+ setenv LC_ALL C
+
+for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have
+problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests
+as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step.
+
+The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for
+ documentation on the 'w' option.
+
+ -untaint support added to IO extension.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+
+ -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
+ as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
+ with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.)
+
+ -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4.
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but
+ they may be right.
+
+ -OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -print sort (4,1,3,2);
+
+ -group numbers are integers again.
+
+ -other things. See the specific changes for details.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07.
+
+ Fixed a spelling error.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc.
+ Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test
+ program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of
+ Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the
+ effect is little.
+
+ Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests.
+ Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one
+ or the other in the hints file for now.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ os2/Changes added.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
+ shared library target, which is delegated to
+ $osname/Makefile.SHs if found.
+ config.h should depend on config_h.SH.
+
+ Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly
+ sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked).
+
+Index: README.os2
+
+ New version.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad
+ things it can do.
+
+Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: gv.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message for overload.
+
+Index: hints/os2.sh
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
+ memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
+ Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately.
+ libc was in .../st/... instead of mt.
+ README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod.
+
+Index: hints/sco.sh
+
+ Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>.
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).
+
+Index: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
+ done outside of OS/2 too?).
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ `bool' entry added.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).
+
+Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: Cleanup after new test
+
+ Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
+ plain broken under OS/2 and VMS)
+
+Index: lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module
+
+Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Update to version 2.4.
+
+Index: lib/lib.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400
+ From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com>
+ Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm
+
+ Ignore undefined entries.
+
+Index: lib/newgetopt.pl
+
+ Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
+ (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
+ with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.)
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06
+
+ The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
+ introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug:
+
+Index: os2/Changes
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ added.
+
+Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
+ aout_clean is done automatically on clean.
+
+Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use `unlink' where appropriate.
+
+Index: os2/diff.configure
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: os2/os2.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
+ popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
+ builtins added for the sake of path manipulation.
+
+Index: os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to subversion 7.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}
+
+ I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
+ (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
+ is frightning!).
+
+ If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
+ of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
+ Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: plan9/aperl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/buildinfo
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/config.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/exclude
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/fndvers
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/genconfig.pl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/mkfile
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9.c
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9ish.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/versnum
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
+ OS/2-specific messages added.
+
+Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ Updated version with high bits intact.
+
+Index: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Crossrefs corrected.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4
+ and perl5.
+
+Index: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ $^E under OS/2.
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT
+ From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
+
+ The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened
+ with write privileges for chsize to work correctly.
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work
+
+ >> > print sort (4,1,2,3);
+ >> >
+ >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature?
+
+ This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread
+ about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around
+ the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on
+ p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that
+ the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called:
+
+ Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above
+ code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306.
+
+Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message on dying.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle.
+
+Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/odbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/socket.t
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)
+
+ fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
+ rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases.
+
+Index: t/op/pack.t
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: t/op/sort.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
+ as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).
+
+Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+Index: x2p/cflags.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_06
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
-Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
- Thanks to Jarkkko Hietaniemi.
+ Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi.
-new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be
backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.
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