implementation even less so. If you have used that feature to
disallow all but fully qualified variables, C<use strict;> instead.
+The chdir(undef) and chdir('') behaviors to match chdir() has been
+deprecated. In future versions, chdir(undef) and chdir('') will
+simply fail.
+
=head1 Core Enhancements
In general a lot of fixing has happened in the area of Perl's
VMS now works under PerlIO.
+=item *
+
+END blocks are now run even if you exit/die in a BEGIN block.
+The execution of END blocks is now controlled by
+PL_exit_flags & PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END. This enables the new
+behaviour for perl embedders. This will default in 5.10. See
+L<perlembed>.
+
=back
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
The subtests 11 and 12 sometimes fail and sometimes work.
-=head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configur
+=head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
The lib/io_multihomed test may hang in HP-UX if Perl has been
configured to be 64-bit. Because other 64-bit platforms do not hang in
Here are the known failures from some compiler/platform combinations.
DEC C V5.3-006 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2
-
+
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3
[-.ext.posix]sigaction..................FAILED on test 7
[-.ext.time.hires]hires.................FAILED on test 14
[.lib]vmsish............................FAILED on test 13
Failed 4/399 tests, 92.48% okay.
-Compac C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2.1
+Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2.1
[-.ext.b]showlex........................FAILED on test 1
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3