Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
- Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl>
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+----------------
+Version 5.004_04 Maintenance release 4 for 5.004
+----------------
+
+"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
+ 2. From discord, find harmony.
+ 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
+ -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work
+
+
+ HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
+
+ Fixed gaps in tainting (readdir, readlink, gecos, bit vector ops).
+ Fixed memory leak in splice(@_).
+ Fixed debugger core dumps.
+ IO::Socket now sets autoflush by default.
+ Several perldoc bugs fixed, now faster and more helpful.
+ Fixed Win32 handle leak.
+ Many other improvements to Win32 support.
+ Many many other bug fixes and enhancements.
+
+
+ ------ BUILD PROCESS ------
+
+ Title: "ExtUtils::Liblist prints diagnostics to STDOUT (vs. STDERR)"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, jesse@ginger
+ (Jesse Glick)
+ Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970829132217.28552A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Tony Sanders
+ <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "INSTALL version 1.26"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828143314.27416B-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970908143853.13750C-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Makefile.SH makedepend.SH x2p/Makefile.SH ext/util/make_ext
+
+ Title: "update to installperl for perl5.004_02 to skip CVS dir"
+ From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272307.RAA13451@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "makedepend loop on HP-UX 10.20"
+ Msg-ID: <1997Sep20.183731.2297443@cor.newman>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Tiny Grammaro in INSTALL"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcwwkb2pc8.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Hugo van der
+ Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970924112654.5054D-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.28"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971010131207.23751A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710132039.XAA21459@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: makedepend.SH
+
+ ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------
+
+ Title: "Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph"
+ From: Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya
+ Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>,
+ <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>,
+ <m0x4ZGj-000EZYC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708291649.MAA23276@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and
+ perl5"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <m0x4u2o-000EZkC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t
+
+ Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hallvard B Furuseth
+ <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)"
+ From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@fkfuga.pc.helsinki.fi>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <m0x3iQE-000CBrC@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
+ Files: proto.h av.c global.sym pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix line number of warnings in while() conditional", "misleading
+ uninit value warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Bacon
+ <gbacon@crp-201.adtran.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708271607.LAA01403@crp-201.adtran.com>
+ Files: proto.h op.c perly.c perly.y
+
+ Title: "-t and POSIX::isatty on IO::Handle objects", "Fix C<-t $handle>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Ward
+ <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199708241529.QAA02457@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t
+
+ Title: "regexec.c regcppartblow declaration missing an arg"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709131651.TAA13471@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "clean up old style package' usage in op.c"
+ From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709151813.NAA14433@psisa.psa.pencom.com>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "beautifying usage() code in perl.c"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <"John L. Allen"<allen@gateway.grumman.com>>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905091314.5991C-100000@gateway>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709170823.EAA21359@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c lib/perl5db.pl mg.c perl.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "downgrade "my $foo masks earlier" from mandatory to "-w""
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter
+ <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709091832.NAA14763@psisa.psa.pencom.com>,
+ <199709102019.QAA09591@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod op.c
+
+ Title: "fix overridden glob() problems"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709171645.MAA13988@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perlsub.pod lib/File/DosGlob.pm op.c t/lib/dosglob.t
+ toke.c
+
+ Title: "Reverse previous "Fix C<qq #hi#>" patch"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Kenneth Albanowski
+ <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Tom Christiansen
+ <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>,
+ <Pine.LNX.3.93.970817200236.170F-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199708141017.MAA10225@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c util.c x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and
+ perl5"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <m0x4AUk-000EUJC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t
+
+ Title: "unpack now allows commas but -w warns", "unpack() difference
+ 5.003->5.004"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
+ Jim Esten <jesten@wdynamic.com>, Jim Esten
+ <jesten@wepco.com>, timbo (Tim Bunce)
+ Msg-ID: <199709031632.LAA29584@wepco.com>,
+ <199709090257.WAA32670@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <199709090917.MAA05602@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <199709091000.LAA24094@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <341077FE.132F@wdynamic.com>,
+ <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905171243.14630A-100000@gateway>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
+
+ Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <HBF.970921p5f6@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod hv.c op.c sv.c x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "A couple of 4_04t1 problems"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9709210959.AA28772@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm perl.c
+
+ Title: "Minor changes to ease port to MVS"
+ From: Len Johnson <lenjay@ibm.net>, SMTP%"BAHUFF@us.oracle.com" ,
+ SMTP%"pfuntner@vnet.ibm.com" , pvhp@forte.com (Peter
+ Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <199709162058.NAA00952@mailsun2.us.oracle.com>
+ Files: unixish.h miniperlmain.c
+
+ Title: "Truer version string and more robust perlbug"
+ From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709201514.QAA21187@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <1997Sep22.090701.2297448@cor.newman>
+ Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix locale bug for constant (readonly) strings"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Enable truly global glob()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for $0 truncation"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Larry's proto fix"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709290004.UAA07559@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs with magical arrays and hashes (@ISA)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232148.RAA29967@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.h proto.h av.c global.sym gv.c mg.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c
+ t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Perl_debug_log stream used for all DEBUG_*(...) macro uses"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: perl.c taint.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232236.SAA04463@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod mg.c os2/Changes
+
+ Title: "option "!#... -- ..." in perl 5.004.03 seems not to work"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Urs Thuermann
+ <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>,
+ <Pine.SOL.3.91.970930105158.10789A-100000@gateway>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer"
+ From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
+ aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
+ Msg-ID: <199710042107.AAA28561@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <19971007104652-cameron-1-10391@sid.research.canon.com.au>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "make Odd number of elements in hash list warning non-mandatory"
+ From: Jason Varsoke {81530} <jjv@caesun10.msd.ray.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710021651.MAA15690@caesun7.msd.ray.com>
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix defined() bug in m4t3 affecting LWP"
+ From: chip@atlantic.net@ig.co.uk ()
+ Msg-ID: <199710101822.OAA14249@cyprus.atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Include $archname in perl -v output"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC"
+ From: Kenneth Stephen <y2kmvs@us.ibm.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>,
+ pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <199710130922.KAA07780@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <5040400007001448000002L082*@MHS>,
+ <9710132015.AA12457@forte.com>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ ------ DOCUMENTATION ------
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod: gotcha in short pattern/char ops"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970913064628.12359F-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Missing section for @_ in perlvar."
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199708142146.RAA13146@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Promised information about AvHASH in perguts is not delivered"
+ From: mjd@plover.com
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.doc - $_ aliasing in map, grep, foreach etc"
+ From: Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970826141343.13463h-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "document the return value of syscall"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <1997Sep7.160817.2297395@cor.newman>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "minor fix for perltrap.pod"
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709170500.BAA14805@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "xsubpp: document advanced dynamic typemap usage"
+ From: "Rujith S. de Silva" <desilva@netbox.com>
+ Files: pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970921074004.21358G-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context."
+ From: Robin Houston <robin@oneworld.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C<qq#hi#> vs C<qq #hi#>."
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709220107.VAA27064@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify exec docs in perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example"
+ From: Joerg Porath <Joerg.Porath@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709240620.IAA30928@pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method" disgnostic"
+ From: rjray@uswest.com (Randy J. Ray)
+ Msg-ID: <199709231710.LAA08854@tremere.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Document split-with-limit on empty string perl4/perl5 change"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>, Hugo
+ van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <hiuvttdkv.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t
+
+ Title: "Clarify close() docs"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081653.MAA20611@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag log & sqrt - refer to Math::Complex package"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710061910.WAA15266@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document //gc"
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709232302.TAA27947@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "repeating #! switches"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Robin Barker
+ <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709241736.NAA25855@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <24778.9709241501@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: taint documentation bug"
+ From: Ken Estes <estes@ms.com>, Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971006121349.10551X-100000@usertest.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perlsec.pod
+
+ ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------
+
+ Title: "FileHandle.pm fails if Exporter has not been loaded previously"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <3445e05b.17874041@smtp2.ibm.net>
+ Files: lib/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Prefer startperl path over perlpath in MakeMaker"
+ From: Andreas Klussmann <andreas@infosys.heitec.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709162017.WAA05043@troubadix.infosys.heitec.net>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Sys::Hostname fails under Solaris 2.5 when setuid"
+ From: Patrick Hayes <Patrick.Hayes.CAP_SESA@renault.fr>
+ Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+
+ Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element"
+ From: Hironori Ikura <hikura@tcc.co.jp>, Hironori Ikura
+ <hikura@trans-nt.com>, Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com>
+ Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>,
+ <m0x4TzI-0003F1C@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11"
+ From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans)
+ Msg-ID: <m0xBcdR-000RArC@plume.nl.compuware.com>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Andy Dougherty
+ <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Gisle Aas
+ <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <E0x9WpH-0003HT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915115856.23236F-100000@newton.phys>,
+ <hvi07zvo9.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <upf@de.uu.net>
+ Msg-ID: <p5iuw1cris.fsf@knowway.de.uu.net>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9708272110.AA26904@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Patches for lib/Math/Complex.pm and t/lib/complex.t"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709102009.WAA27428@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Win32: Install.pm not correctly comparing binary files."
+ From: Jeff Urlwin <jurlwin@access.digex.net>
+ Msg-ID: <01BCBFAA.E325C4A0.jurlwin@access.digex.net>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks"
+ From: Greg Ward <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Msg-ID: <199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm
+
+ Title: "fix subroutines called in a void context in perl5db.pl"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0x6Gsa-0004VR-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs"
+ From: John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970920154720.3683A@gateway>
+ Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm
+
+ Title: "further complex number patches"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199709221009.FAA21216@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>,
+ <199709221216.PAA15130@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Trap Time::Local infinite loop"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032226.SAA15354@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "ExtUtil::Install sub my_cmp needs to binmode its files"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter
+ <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710010617.BAA02037@psisa.psa.pencom.com>,
+ <199710011819.OAA03288@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Enable make test "TEST_FILES=t/*.t.were_failing""
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix for autouse.pm"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710071734.NAA19462@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex fixes - fixes problems on m68-linux"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709301422.HAA24368@koah.research.nokia.com>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ Title: "Updated CPAN.pm for 5.004_04"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcpvpv8teo.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232331.TAA04546@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix atan2 & restrict $t to (-pi,pi] instead of to [-pi,pi]"
+ From: Daniel S. Lewart, Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710010939.CAA00964@koah.research.nokia.com>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ Title: "Cwd::fastcwd needs changes to work with tainting"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Ulrich Pfeifer
+ <pfeifer@wait.de>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <yfmwwk6y0bc.ulp@gretchen.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Title: "use autouse: requires prototype now"
+ From: user@agate.berkeley.edu
+ Msg-ID: <9709220450.AA0380@tuzik.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
+ Files: lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: ""use base qw(Foo Bar);" to set @ISA at compile time"
+ From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>, Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Graham Barr
+ <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>,
+ jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois), larry@wall.org (Larry
+ Wall)
+ Msg-ID: <199710022151.WAA21250@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <199710031613.JAA11286@wall.org>,
+ <199710040829.KAA16739@furu.g.aas.no>,
+ <3434E4C6.AE24135E@ti.com>, <343C2278.7DC1ADC6@pobox.com>,
+ <343ec306.50394803@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
+ Files: lib/base.pm
+
+ Title: "Further Math/Complex.pm enhancements"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ ------ OTHER CHANGES ------
+
+ Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710030001.UAA14241@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: ../pod/perlfunc.pod ../pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "libperl.sl on HP-UX 10.20"
+ From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709250003.BAA18085@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <873emkbpit.fsf@perv.daft.com>
+ Files:
+
+ Title: "myconfig / perl -V: remove randbits and add prototype"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: myconfig
+
+ Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710140835.EAA26825@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el
+
+ Title: "Enhance perly.fixer to help porters."
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: perly.fixer
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------
+
+ Title: "Fix win32/Makefile for perl95"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "Win32 archnames"
+ From: Bill Middleton <wmiddlet@Adobe.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+ <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>, Tim
+ Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <341719E4.4923@forte.com>,
+ <Pine.GSO.3.95.970905123145.12361B-100000@ducks>
+ Files: win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc
+
+ Title: "pl2bat.bat -> pl2bat.pl change in win32/pod.mak"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <3411ee6f.9143607@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
+ Files: win32/pod.mak
+
+ Title: "Add test-notty target to Win32 Makefile"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <343f5106.12461608@smtp2.ibm.net>
+ Files: win32/Makefile
+
+ Title: "Bug in Win32::GetShortPathName"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "Fix NT handles leak."
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710111319.JAA10918@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "fix socket init duality on win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710111523.LAA12407@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32sck.c
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------
+
+ Title: "Tweak to hints/machten.sh: stop t/lib/complex.t from failing"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03110700b06a30bdfc42@[194.51.248.80]>
+ Files: hints/machten.sh
+
+ Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations"
+ From: "Billinghurst, David" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au>
+ Msg-ID: <D54B1932FFB4CF11B5C80000F8018BD2907E31@CRCMAIL>
+ Files: hints/irix_6.sh
+
+ Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828142011.27416A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970908112449.0087bc90@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Patches to updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970918100648.008b1c60@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: README.vms
+
+ Title: "Fix perl build on Digital UNIX after JDK installs libnet.so"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199709191826.OAA18040@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970912091524.008a3620@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: README.vms
+
+ Title: "Dynixptx hints"
+ From: bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck")
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.971002104651.12112G-200000@lancelot.aps.org>
+ Files: hints/dynixptx.sh
+
+ Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: os2/os2.c
+
+ Title: "OS2::REXX improvements"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709272214.SAA08638@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: os2/Changes os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
+
+ Title: "hints/qnx.sh update"
+ From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709261508.LAA07889@dolores.harvard.edu>
+ Files: hints/qnx.sh
+
+ Title: "New hints file for IBM OS/390 OpenEdition (MVS)"
+ From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <9709240106.AA26484@forte.com>
+ Files: hints/os390.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 Hints"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710130631.CAA25426@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: hints/os2.sh
+
+ ------ TESTS ------
+
+ Title: "op/glob.t test failure under Win32 with CVS"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Aug26.091048pdt.35761-1@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: t/op/glob.t
+
+ Title: "tests fail if localhost/loopback address not defined"
+ From: David McLean <David McLean<davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>>, David McLean
+ <davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
+ Msg-ID: <34048947.2944@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
+ Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t
+
+ Title: "Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Identify t/*/*.t test failing because of file permissions"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcraah0xvy.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Norton Allen
+ <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709261458.KAA28611@dolores.harvard.edu>
+ Files: t/op/runlevel.t
+
+ ------ UTILITIES ------
+
+ Title: "Missing 'require' in auto-generated .pm by h2xs"
+ From: davidk@tor.securecomputing.com (David Kerry)
+ Msg-ID: <97Aug27.131618edt.11650@janus.tor.securecomputing.com>
+ Files: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Title: "Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02"
+ From: David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>,
+ kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic)
+ Msg-ID: <199708201454.KAA05122@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>,
+ <199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu>
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "add key_t caddr_t to h2ph", "eg/sysvipc/ipcsem bug", "update
+ hints/bsdos.sh"
+ From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL'"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcg1qy38as.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "add better local patch info to perlbug", "perlbug checks perl
+ build/run version changes"
+ From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found"
+ From: Anthony David <adavid@netinfo.com.au>
+ Msg-ID: <3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail"
+ From: "Joseph Moof-in' Hall" <joseph@cscaper.com>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster"
+ From: "Joseph N. Hall" <joseph@5sigma.com>
+ Msg-ID: <MailDrop1.2d7dPPC.971012211957@screechy.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_03 Maintenance release 3 for 5.004
+----------------
+
+"To err is human, to forgive divine."
+ -- Alexander Pope
+
+
+ HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
+
+ Fixed 5.004_02 compilation failure on VMS.
+ Fixed Configure (non)errors being displayed to user.
+ Better support for Windows 95.
+ Assorted documentation and hint file improvements.
+ perl --foo no longer silently ignored.
+
+
+ ------ BUILD PROCESS ------
+
+ Title: "Show Configure failure reason even with -s"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970812141623.14256K-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Configure can stop without fully explaining itself"
+ From: Jim Anderson <jander@ml.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708111328.JAA28976@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com>,
+ <199708111952.PAA29346@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------
+
+ Title: "typos in perl -h output"
+ From: "Richard A. Wells" <Rwells@uhs.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <6D0BF914BC@gateuhs.harvard.edu>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Some perldb -> PERLDB_* macro changes were missed"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708100323.XAA27155@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Further fix to lseek's in lockf_emulate_flock"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199708060031.CAA07387@bombur2.uio.no>,
+ <199708102225.AAA16970@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "GNU style perl --version (or any other --foo) ignored"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Kenneth Albanowski
+ <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wx8MO-0007BS-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <Pine.LNX.3.93.970813122557.9443C-100000@kjahds.com>,
+ <m0wy8nl-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c
+
+ Title: "seen_dot declaration in perl.c needed for VMS"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708072033.QAA09167@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ ------ DOCUMENTATION ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] -D info in perlrun", "[PATCH] Re: -D info in perlrun"
+ From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya
+ Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Aug10.195832.2224477@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
+ <m0wxNNL-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>,
+ <m0wxz6l-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>,
+ jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com
+ Msg-ID: <199708061404.KAA06717@whirlwind.fmr.com>,
+ <199708081505.LAA09810@whirlwind.fmr.com>,
+ <1997Aug7.160530.2196011@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
+ <E0wwnqc-00057s-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0wwswg-00017x-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "pod2man generated .IX lines upset whatis on Solaris"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com (John
+ Redford)
+ Msg-ID: <E0wxoUZ-0006Ee-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "The description of the \Q metacharacter is confusing to novices"
+ From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
+ Msg-ID: <199708101946.AA06339@world.std.com>
+ Files: pod/perlre.pod
+
+ Title: "doc patch for pack("p",undef) packing a NULL pointer"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod error"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708102235.QAA18420@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------
+
+ Title: "patch for documentation error in FileCache.pm"
+ From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>, mikebo@tellabs.com
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970810143321.437C-100000@stok.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/FileCache.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] 5.004_02: Complex/Trig: update"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199708081842.VAA31214@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "CPAN Use of uninitialized value in newest perl"
+ From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
+ Msg-ID: <9708091738.AA16435@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] /x is not a valid shell switch on Win95"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708121720.NAA14760@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Win95-proofing pl2bat"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708121733.NAA14888@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/bin/pl2bat.pl
+ win32/bin/runperl.pl win32/bin/search.pl
+ win32/bin/webget.pl
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] [OK] Perl5.004_02 on Alpha NT"
+ From: wmiddlet@adobe.com (William Middleton)
+ Msg-ID: <199708072100.OAA13141@ducks>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------
+
+ Title: "Improve dual-universe comments in hints/sunos_4_1.sh"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970812170358.14488E-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+
+ Title: "Dynamic Loading on MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux)"
+ From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>, Shimpei Yamashita
+ <shimpei@socrates.patnet.caltech.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <33EF1634.B36B6500@pobox.com>
+ Files: hints/linux.sh
+
+ Title: "5.004_02 Configure - worrying but normal errors displayed to user"
+ From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk
+ (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <01BCA3DE.E257BFC0.pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>,
+ <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: Configure os2/diff.configure
+
+ Title: "Minor glitch with Perl 5.004_01 on SunOS 4.1.3 (groupstype)"
+ From: thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan)
+ Msg-ID: <9708111415.AA03808@thadlabs.com>
+ Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+
+ Title: "SCO Openserver 5.0.4 - add comment to hint file re compiler bug"
+ From: Bill Glicker <billg@burrelles.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.970811153021.18457A-100000@laura.burrelles.com>
+ Files: hints/sco.sh
+
+ ------ UTILITIES ------
+
+ Title: "perlbug -d non-interactive (with patch)"
+ From: Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708071418.KAA15711@ns.southern.edu>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_02 Maintenance release 2 for 5.004
+----------------
+
+"When you work you are a flute through whose
+ heart the whispering of the hours turns to music."
+ -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
+
+
+ HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
+
+ Major memory growth bug fixed.
+ Object destruction is more timely and orderly.
+ Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including:
+ Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++.
+ The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun).
+ Implicit -p print now checks for write errors.
+ DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes).
+ Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta).
+ 'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta).
+ Internal integer to string conversions are faster.
+ Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp).
+ Many other bug fixes and enhancements.
+
+
+ ------ BUILD PROCESS ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: Configure: cf_time always in C locale"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, hans@icgned.nl
+ (Hans Mulder)
+ Msg-ID: <9706271816.AA10551@ icgned.icgned.nl >
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't use undef value in Config::myconfig"
+ From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@sissy.in-berlin.de>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199706271525.RAA13517@sissy.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: configpm
+
+ Title: "make Configure recognize powerux hint (perl5.004_01)"
+ From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
+ Msg-ID: <9707301938.AA08352@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "[PATCH]: HP-UX 10 w/o transition links"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199706181851.AA093329906@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>,
+ <199706231650.AA070364627@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "INSTALL updates for GNU ld and __inet_* errors"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ...""
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707191651.MAA04897@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Band-aid fix for local([@%]$x)"
+ From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <m0wsb7J-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod op.c pp_hot.c t/op/local.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Bug in Regular Expressions when using colon as
+ delimiter"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wtbhv-0005Mm-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Can't pack literals as pointers"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708012250.SAA20278@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/pack.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Do not constant-fold ops that depend on locale if C<use
+ locale>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707211753.NAA14940@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: t/comp/term.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak on eval 'sub {}'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "stringify looses integerness"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hbu4l96z2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707011421.KAA15836@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Calling Perl from within C from within Perl"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: t/op/universal.t universal.c
+
+ Title: "Avoid core dump on some paren'd regexp matches", "One-liner regex
+ causes SEGV on 5.003 under HP-UX and Linux"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199706261236.NAA03472@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199707061144.MAA04443@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: regexec.c t/op/re_tests
+
+ Title: "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970625111744.19300A-100000@gateway>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<qq #hi#>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hyb80drrz.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl>
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]"
+ From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
+ Msg-ID: <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <m33erfv5hx.fsf@chany-p100.emwp.com>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<print $foo x 2> parsing"
+ From: "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>, Chip
+ Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, gen@atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp
+ Msg-ID: <199706091132.UAA00895@wampa.atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't use atol() for unsigned values", "signedness problem in
+ pack("N", "value");"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Roger Espel Llima
+ <espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr>
+ Msg-ID: <19970531200007.40218@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn about "${foo}" in string, even if &foo exists"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v0311070aafea3fa83061@[194.51.248.75]>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix double form() in XS version check"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: XSUB.h
+
+ Title: "Constant-fold sprintf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: opcode.pl
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: XSUB.h
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970731131529.3740A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h
+
+ Title: "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Slightly safer signals"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: mg.c perl.c
+
+ Title: "Time::Local patch (plus perl.c and filehand.t)"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm perl.c t/lib/filehand.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Weirdness in sv_peek()"
+ From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <m0wsEMU-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>,
+ <m0wsf7Y-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707262127.RAA12883@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Faster int to string conversion", "[PATCH} Re: memory leak in buffer
+ safety code"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199707140912.KAA09935@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199707142050.QAA20976@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <199707182035.VAA20990@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <9707151040.AA02883@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: global.sym sv.c
+
+ Title: "object never destructs"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707131955.PAA29655@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] -S flag fixes for DOSISH platforms", "[RESEND] [PATCH] -S
+ flag fixes for DOSISH platforms"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250043.UAA02385@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199707301828.OAA19508@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod perl.c
+
+ Title: "Perldb internal flag rehaul"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c
+ pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: q and escaping paired delimiters"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Kenneth Albanowski
+ <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <Pine.LNX.3.93.970727172201.350K-100000@kjahds.com>,
+ <Pine.LNX.3.93.970728013540.350U-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: malloc.c perl.c
+
+ Title: "semctl broken under Linux"
+ From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Andreas
+ Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Graham
+ Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <33C38291.2D9302DA@ti.com>,
+ <9707040912.AA03470@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
+ <9707041538.AA08946@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <9707070924.AA11774@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
+ <9707090933.AA19012@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] m2t2: problem in NetBSD 1.2D with sfio"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: perl.h
+
+ Title: "fix substr fix (tests 27 etc)", "perl5.004_02 trial 1 available
+ (with substr bug and still some"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <E0wtruH-0002JM-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't
+ intersect original at all"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <E0wm1JG-0000UY-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/substr.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] work around compiler bug on CX/UX (perl5.004_01)"
+ From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
+ Msg-ID: <9707301934.AA18594@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
+ Files: hints/cxux.sh pp.c
+
+ ------ DOCUMENTATION ------
+
+ Title: "Duplicates in perlguts.pod"
+ From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder)
+ Msg-ID: <9707082346.AA13231@ icgned.icgned.nl >
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Better "Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC" error documentation"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Jun24.195847.2091744@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "new perlembed.pod:match.c"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org>
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2"
+ From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <m0wr6P8-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0welEn-0002vT-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0wfRJU-0006Aw-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707152223.SAA00776@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "[BUG:47:LOG] Dropped "and" in pod2man"
+ From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder)
+ Msg-ID: <9707082355.AA13254@ icgned.icgned.nl >
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "[BUG] perlembed.pod:power.c example"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org>
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl>
+ Files: pod/perlapio.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug"
+ From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com>
+ Files: pod/perldebug.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707212350.TAA18496@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "patch to 5.004_01 perltrap.pod"
+ From: jmm@revenge.elegant.com (John Macdonald)
+ Msg-ID: <9706231525.AA22790@revenge.elegant.com>
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "perl4 to perl5.004 converion with debugger problem"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wdKJY-00010w-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "done3/perlbook.pod"
+ From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com>
+ Files: pod/perlbook.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document use of - in a regex char class."
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03102804afd578bcef2c@[194.51.248.88]>
+ Files: pod/perlre.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199706240048.CAA10515@xs2.xs4all.nl>,
+ <9706241612.AA09119@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/splitpod
+
+ ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------
+
+ Title: "Carp::cluck() and -MCarp=verbose"
+ From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk, epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko)
+ Msg-ID: <199708060607.AAA16681@den-mdev1.tci.com>,
+ <199708062105.PAA09878@den-mdev1.tci.com>
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Warning from calls using "use Shell""
+ From: Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@abel.math.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970806173903.7320H-100000@abel>
+ Files: lib/Shell.pm
+
+ Title: "confessing a carp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Nick Ing-Simmons
+ <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199708052155.WAA25393@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199708060721.IAA30894@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199708061533.LAA01313@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <33E79BE2.4E6F@ni-s.u-net.com>,
+ <33E8E3C5.62C@ni-s.u-net.com>,
+ <9708051619.AA13764@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "[BUG:PATCH] dumpvar.pl parses some references incorrectly"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wwAjQ-0004l6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: lib/dumpvar.pl
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707210006.UAA06165@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "m2t2 broke CPAN.pm :-("
+ From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] CPAN.pm on OS/2"
+ From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de>, Ilya Zakharevich
+ <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707180415.AAA03180@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
+ <199707181407.QAA12920@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "Docs of IO::Handle [PATCH]"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707222307.TAA08380@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Exporter errors give wrong location"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wdJra-0000n8-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Exporter new export_to_level method"
+ From: epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko)
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "DB_File produces spurious output when trapping __DIE__"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9706302125.AA28254@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+ Title: "Remove 'use UNIVERSAL;', switch to UNIVERSAL::isa()"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Title: "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken"
+ From: Mathias Koerber <mathias@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg>
+ Msg-ID: <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg>
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Title: "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}"
+ From: Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+
+ Title: "xsubpp patch"
+ From: John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707010221.CAA01234@remote133>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.15 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9707192117.AA01973@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap
+ t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Title: "Problems with setvbuf"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707252101.RAA11846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ Title: "IO::File and DB_File pollutes namespace with Fcntl constants"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <h205qyijy.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ Title: "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706182152.RAA20273@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ Title: "Net::hostent documentation error"
+ From: gnat@frii.com
+ Msg-ID: <199707082222.QAA24728@elara.frii.com>
+ Files: lib/Net/hostent.pm
+
+ Title: "PATCH: make DBM*_File modules sub-classable"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9707121854.AA19472@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/typemap
+ ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/typemap
+ t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ Title: "Sys::Syslog patch to allow unix domain sockets"
+ From: Sean Robinson <robinson_s@sc.maricopa.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C<UNIVERSAL::isa()> instead",
+ "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>,
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+ <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199706271701.NAA25664@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199706271904.UAA00120@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <199706272054.QAA28913@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199706301554.LAA03763@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <33B22248.7D7C1985@ti.com>,
+ <E0wf5TN-0006ps-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0wguTR-0005bs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0wiyUG-00073j-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <hiuyv6q9k.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm
+ t/op/universal.t universal.c
+
+ Title: "[MM] Small patch to MakeMaker, new release"
+ From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199706281603.SAA10869@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "ExtUtils-Embed upgrade"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] icmp tweak for IO::Socket"
+ From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199707041240.NAA21484@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow concurrent mkdir in File::Path::mkpath"
+ From: schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy)
+ Msg-ID: <199707300943.LAA21574@kant.imb-jena.de>
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "CPAN.pm, $VERSION and nested (bundled) modules."
+ From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] perl debugger, win32, and emacs"
+ From: Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl>
+ Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095755.00875ba0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "MM_Unix.pm nits for Win32 DMAKE"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708032051.QAA14248@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Sys::Hostname -w unclean in trial 2"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708032055.QAA14278@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+
+ Title: "(3) File::Find::find()/finddepth() bugs with toplevel paths"
+ From: "Conrad E. Kimball" <cek@tblv021.ca.boeing.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com>
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm
+
+ ------ OTHER CHANGES ------
+
+ Title: "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>,
+ ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801134400.4393F-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files:
+ Files:
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707261518.LAA24346@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199707301833.OAA19570@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "Minor fix for pl2bat.bat", "[PATCH] Re: Minor fix for pl2bat.bat"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Warren Jones
+ <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <97Jun24.115804pdt.35752-2@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat
+
+ Title: "WIN32 Build - pod2xxx.bat Missing?", "[PATCH] Re: WIN32 Build -
+ pod2xxx.bat Missing?"
+ From: Chris Williams <chrisw@netinfo.com.au>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+ <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707011423.KAA15855@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <33B8B962.D96FA1F5@netinfo.com.au>
+ Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Win32 sitelib intuition from DLL location"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706231647.MAA23260@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.h win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] binary coexistence on win32", "[RESEND] [PATCH] binary
+ coexistence on win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250109.VAA02666@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199707301829.OAA19516@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h
+ win32/win32iop.h win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c
+ win32/win32io.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] docs for win32 utilities"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250045.UAA02510@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] exec() fixed on win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706241525.LAA06554@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c
+ win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] getenv() after my_setenv() gets old entry on Win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706231700.NAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] getservby*() calls fail on Windows NT"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199707262307.TAA28410@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199707270832.JAA19399@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod README.win32 win32/Makefile win32/config.bc
+ win32/config.vc win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] trial2: some batch files won't run"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708040226.WAA17301@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32 docs and runperl.bat"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707070446.AAA29560@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32 extras and embedding"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250232.WAA03421@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199707301831.OAA19528@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: dosish.h win32/win32.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config_H.bc
+ win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32 tweaks"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707042150.RAA01065@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32_stat() fixes (2nd try)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708040137.VAA16810@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: t/op/stat.t win32/win32iop.h win32/win32.c
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------
+
+ Title: "Additional OS/2 patches"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Ilya Zakharevich
+ <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
+ <199708021424.KAA28561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199708042108.RAA27671@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: README.os2 os2/Changes perl.c
+
+ Title: "Additional patch is needed for os2/diff.configure"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708020745.DAA19483@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ Title: "Assorted OS/2 fixes"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Jun16.163234.2091727@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Files: hints/os2.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h README.os2 os2/Changes
+ os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c util.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Changes for VMS 7.1 support"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>, Dan Sugalski
+ <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <01ILDXUH0J1W00026U@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
+ <3.0.2.32.19970718095935.0087a2d0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/sockadapt.h vms/config.vms vms/sockadapt.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Easier TCP stack selection for VMS"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/descrip.mms
+
+ Title: "Minor VMS patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ILCUO6XXTE000WFK@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/vmsish.h vms/descrip.mms vms/test.com
+ vms/vms.c vms/ext/filespec.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Two un-disabled tests for VMS"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095842.00879220@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/test.com
+
+ Title: "fixes for hints/svr4 for UnixWare >= 2.1.1"
+ From: John Hughes <john@titanic.atlantech.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707021230.OAA24230@titanic.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Files: hints/svr4.sh
+
+ Title: "make depend loop fix and minor OS/2 improvements to build process"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Files: Makefile.SH hints/os2.sh os2/Makefile.SHs
+
+ ------ TESTS ------
+
+ Title: "Add xor tests to test suite"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: t/comp/cmdopt.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ Title: "Fix up problems with *DBM tests"
+ From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ ------ UTILITIES ------
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: utils/perlbug.PL: -ok report is not a bug"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "OK: perl <some_version> on <some_system> (corrected)", "enhancements
+ to perlbug -ok"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <E0wukVt-0006Da-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <E0wvMQl-00055y-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <m0wv81x-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perlbug -ok [PATCH]"
+ From: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@free.click-n-call.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perlbug broken"
+ From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Jun17.184420pdt.35728-1@gateway.fluke.com>,
+ <97Jun18.165618pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] perldoc under OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings"
+ From: wdconsta <wdconsta@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.970708143446.23808A-100000@florence.teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_01 Maintenance release 1 for 5.004
+----------------
+
+"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty"
+ -- Anne Herbert
+
+ HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
+
+ (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed.
+ Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong.
+ Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed.
+ Documentation updates.
+ Many other bug fixes and enhancements.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl
+ Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t
+
+ Title: "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a"
+ From: Andreas Karrer <karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>,
+ <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed."
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>,
+ pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>,
+ <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: proto.h mg.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)",
+ "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl>
+ Files: embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t
+
+ Title: "Patch to show @INC when require dies"
+ From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera)
+ Msg-ID: <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e"
+ From: hansm@euro.net
+ Files: op.c t/op/subst.t
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if
+ used as lvalue."
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu
+ (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks
+ nroff"
+ From: Davin Milun <milun@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>,
+ <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted"
+ From: chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom
+ (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste)
+ Msg-ID: <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>,
+ <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>,
+ <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>,
+ <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>,
+ <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com>
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME""
+ From: whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde)
+ Msg-ID: <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com>
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand"
+ From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <m0wSMiC-000C9xC@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)"
+ From: Chris Wick <cwick@lmc.com>
+ Files: pod/perllol.pod
+
+ Title: "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently"
+ From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar)
+ Msg-ID: <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Documentation bugs"
+ From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable
+ xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid"
+ From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, "Paul D. Smith"
+ <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+ <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
+ Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>, avera@hal.com (Jim
+ Avera), lvirden@cas.org
+ Msg-ID: <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>,
+ <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>,
+ <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>,
+ <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>,
+ <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast>
+ Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml
+
+ Title: "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file"
+ From: Larry Parmelee <parmelee@CS.Cornell.EDU>
+ Files: pod/checkpods.PL
+
+ Title: "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed."
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL
+
+ Title: "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)"
+ From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
+ Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm
+
+ Title: "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour
+ with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>,
+ alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz)
+ Msg-ID: <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp"
+ From: "Richard L. Maus, Jr." <rmaus@monmouth.com>
+ Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+
+ Title: "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/chat2.pl
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "make test && ... doesn't work"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970529142739.662D-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support"
+ From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "installhtml problems finding splitpod"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org
+ Files: installhtml INSTALL
+
+ Title: "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Files: installman
+
+ Title: "oddity in Configure"
+ From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX"
+ From: Peter van Heusden <pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.A32.3.93.970519142625.22442B-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>,
+ <Pine.A32.3.93.970519163700.25188A-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>
+ Files: Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym
+
+ Title: "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x"
+ From: Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=)
+ <matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp>
+ Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp>
+ Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "win32: additional default libraries"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS"
+ From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32"
+ From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar)
+ Msg-ID: <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@TC.FLUKE.COM>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+
+ Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>, Jordan
+ Mendelson <jordy@snappy.wserv.com>
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS"
+ From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk
+ Msg-ID: <XFMail.970522181042.Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP"
+ From: Henrik Tougaard <ht.000@foa.dk>
+ Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints"
+ From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com>
+ Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh
+
+ Title: "win32: user defined shell"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org>
+ Files: pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall
+ vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL
+ win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] README.win32 nits"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: README.win32
+
+ Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: README.win32
+
+ Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: hints/svr4.sh
+
+ Title: "porting.help"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel
+
+ Title: "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)",
+ "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h
+ opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
+ ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+ lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h
+ win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c
+ mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c
+ win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc
+ win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c
+ win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c
+ win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c
+ t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c
+ win32/win32io.c
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc
+ win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Tests depend on locale"
+ From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>,
+ <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t
+
+ Title: "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)"
+ From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>
+ Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>
+ Files: t/op/groups.t
+
+ Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl>
+ Files: t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: t/op/split.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs"
+ From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jsh@woodcock.boulder.qms.com>
+ Files: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl
+ Files: utils/Makefile
+
+ Title: "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug
+ w.r.t. environment variables"
+ From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>,
+ <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl
+ Files: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+
+-------------
+Version 5.004
+-------------
+
+"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a release out of my hat!"
+"Aww, that trick never works..."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make C<m//g> reset pos on failure; make C<m//gc> not reset"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c
+ t/op/pat.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t
+ taint.c
+
+ Title: "Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t
+ taint.c
+
+ Title: "Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: hints/irix_6.sh
+
+ Title: "Fix default HP-UX installation path"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
+ Msg-ID: <199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:28:04 -0700
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS update, including socket support (four patches)"
+ From: Jonathan Hudson <Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>,
+ Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>,
+ Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c
+ vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (three patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H
+ win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h
+ win32/win32iop.h
+
+ Title: "Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH"
+ From: Danny Sadinoff <sadinoff@olf.com>
+ Msg-ID: <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com>
+ Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "In C<eval &func>, always call &func in scalar context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix recursive substitution"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg; test from Tim Bunce
+ Files: cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c t/op/subst.t
+
+ Title: "Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF"
+ From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net>
+ Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 07:47:13 -0400
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix typo"
+ From: Mark K Trettin <mkt@lucent.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com>
+ Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Don't use 'unset' in Configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Protect against having no such command as 'cc'"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "minor wording enhancement for Configure"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36"
+ From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
+ Files: eg/cgi/frameset.cgi eg/cgi/javascript.cgi lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs t/lib/io_xs.t
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970510190846.23340K-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ Title: "Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1"
+ From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com>
+ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:35:41 -0600
+ Files: t/op/sleep.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "h2xs and @EXPORT_OK"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
+ Msg-ID: <199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:48:20 -0700
+ Files: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Tweaks for perldelta"
+ From: hansm@euronet.nl
+ Msg-ID: <199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl>
+ Date: Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix example of use of lexicals with formats"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Explain that destruction order is not defined"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 02:00:23 -0400
+ Files: pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}"
+ From: neilb@cre.canon.co.uk (Neil Bowers)
+ Msg-ID: <199705121227.NAA29718@tardis.cre.canon.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:27:43 +0100
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod
+
+ Title: "More detailed IO::Socket documentation"
+ From: Tom Christiansen
+ Msg-ID: <199705141456.IAA19061@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:56:30 -0600
+ Files: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+
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