X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=74755010ca34672e98f88ba6e034ae10b4edc535;hb=50e27ac33704d6fb34d4be7cfb426b2097b27505;hp=075fa394fc227b65b624eee41ffec3e46ddd8709;hpb=46fc3d4c69a0adf236bfcba70daee7fd597cf30d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 075fa39..7475501 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ current addresses (as of March 1997): Kenneth Albanowski Graham Barr Spider Boardman - Tim Bunce Tom Christiansen Hallvard B Furuseth M. J. T. Guy @@ -30,21 +29,3000 @@ current addresses (as of March 1997): Andreas Koenig Doug MacEachern Paul Marquess + Hans Mulder Jeff Okamoto Ulrich Pfeifer Tom Phoenix Norbert Pueschel Dean Roehrich Roderick Schertler + Larry W. Virden Ilya Zakharevich And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: Charles Bailey + Tim Bunce Andy Dougherty Chip Salzenberg +---------------- +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 , jesse@ginger + (Jesse Glick) + Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>, + + Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Tony Sanders + + Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "INSTALL version 1.26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + 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 + 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: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1" + From: Andy Dougherty , Hugo van der + Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL-1.28" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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 , Stephen McCamant + , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>, + <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>, + + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hallvard B Furuseth + + Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + 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 , Greg Bacon + + 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 , Greg Ward + + Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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 + 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"> + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 , Stephen Potter + + 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 + 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" patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Kenneth Albanowski + , Tom Christiansen + + Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>, + + Files: toke.c + + Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + 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 , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + 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" , Chip Salzenberg + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Jim Esten , Jim Esten + , 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>, + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: + 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 , 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" , Hugo van der Sanden + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Enable truly global glob()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix for $0 truncation" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Larry's proto fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + 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 , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: perl.c taint.c util.c + + Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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" , Urs Thuermann + + Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>, + + Files: perl.c + + Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer" + From: Cameron Simpson , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + 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} + 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 + Files: perl.c + + Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC" + From: Kenneth Stephen , Tim Bunce , + 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 + Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "document the return value of syscall" + From: Hans Mulder + 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" + Files: pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context." + From: Robin Houston + Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C vs C." + 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 + Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example" + From: Joerg Porath + 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" , Gisle Aas , Hugo + van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t + + Title: "Clarify close() docs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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 , Robin Barker + + 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 , Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element" + From: Hironori Ikura , Hironori Ikura + , Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>, + + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11" + From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Andy Dougherty + , Gisle Aas + + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches" + From: Achim Bohnet + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm" + From: "John L. Allen" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "further complex number patches" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , 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 + Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 , Stephen Potter + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix for autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + 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: + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + + 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 , Ulrich Pfeifer + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: + 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 , Graham Barr , Graham Barr + , Tim Bunce , + 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 + Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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..." , Hugo van der Sanden + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: myconfig + + Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "Win32 archnames" + From: Bill Middleton , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Peter Prymmer , Tim + Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <341719E4.4923@forte.com>, + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Fix NT handles leak." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations" + From: "Billinghurst, David" + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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: + Files: hints/dynixptx.sh + + Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/os2.c + + Title: "OS2::REXX improvements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + + 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 + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1" + From: Dan Sugalski + 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: + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + , Norton Allen + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02" + From: David Mazieres , + 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 + 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: + 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 + 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" , 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" + Msg-ID: + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can stop without fully explaining itself" + From: Jim Anderson + 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" + Msg-ID: <6D0BF914BC@gateuhs.harvard.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Some perldb -> PERLDB_* macro changes were missed" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + 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" , Kenneth Albanowski + , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "seen_dot declaration in perl.c needed for VMS" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug10.195832.2224477@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Hans Mulder , + jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com + Msg-ID: <199708061404.KAA06717@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <199708081505.LAA09810@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <1997Aug7.160530.2196011@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "pod2man generated .IX lines upset whatis on Solaris" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com (John + Redford) + Msg-ID: + 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 + 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 , mikebo@tellabs.com + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/FileCache.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] 5.004_02: Complex/Trig: update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708121720.NAA14760@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Win95-proofing pl2bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "Dynamic Loading on MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux)" + From: Chris Nandor , Shimpei Yamashita + + 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 + (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 + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sco.sh + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "perlbug -d non-interactive (with patch)" + From: Ted Ashton + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep" + From: Andy Dougherty , 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" , Chip Salzenberg + + 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 + 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 + Files: INSTALL + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ..."" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Msg-ID: + 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" + Msg-ID: + 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 + 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" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "stringify looses integerness" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Msg-ID: <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + 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 + 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" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]" + From: Matthias Neeracher + Msg-ID: <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix C parsing" + From: "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" , Chip + Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning" + From: Chip Salzenberg , 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 , Roger Espel Llima + + 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 + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c + + Title: "Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Constant-fold sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h + + Title: "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Slightly safer signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Msg-ID: , + + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: av.c + + Title: "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 , Hugo van der Sanden + , Tim Bunce + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 , Kenneth Albanowski + + Msg-ID: <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + , + + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + + Title: "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: malloc.c perl.c + + Title: "semctl broken under Linux" + From: Andreas Schwab , Andreas + Schwab , Graham + Barr , Tim Bunce + 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 + 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" , Hugo van der Sanden + , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't + intersect original at all" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>, + + 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 + Msg-ID: <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Msg-ID: <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlapio.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug" + From: Greg Bacon + Msg-ID: <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "done3/perlbook.pod" + From: Randal Schwartz + Files: pod/perlbook.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented" + From: Hans Mulder + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document use of - in a regex char class." + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01" + From: Hans Mulder , Tim Bunce + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Shell.pm + + Title: "confessing a carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + , Nick Ing-Simmons + , Tim Bunce + 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" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/dumpvar.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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" , Ilya Zakharevich + + 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 + 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" + Msg-ID: + 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" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + + Title: "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken" + From: Mathias Koerber + Msg-ID: <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}" + From: Ken Shan + Msg-ID: <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "xsubpp patch" + From: John Tobey + 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 + Msg-ID: <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Title: "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Msg-ID: <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C instead", + "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Gisle Aas , + Graham Barr , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Hugo van der Sanden + + 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>, + , + , + , + , + , + + 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" + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + 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 + 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 + 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" + Msg-ID: <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?" + From: Andy Dougherty , + ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + + Files: + Files: + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 , Warren Jones + + 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 , Gurusamy Sarathy + + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 , Ilya Zakharevich + + 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 + 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 , Dan Sugalski + + 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 + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "Minor VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + 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 + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/comp/cmdopt.t + + Title: "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Fix up problems with *DBM tests" + From: Paul Marquess + 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 + Msg-ID: <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "OK: perl on (corrected)", "enhancements + to perlbug -ok" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug -ok [PATCH]" + From: "Charles F. Randall" + Msg-ID: <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug broken" + From: Andreas Schwab + Msg-ID: <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones + 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 + Msg-ID: <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings" + From: wdconsta + Msg-ID: + 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 , Chip Salzenberg + + 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 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Jay Rogers , + 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 + 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 + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if + used as lvalue." + From: John Hughes + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , 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 , Hans Mulder + 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" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)" + From: Chris Wick + 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 + 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..." , "Paul D. Smith" + , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Michael R Cook , 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 + 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 + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)" + From: Matthias Neeracher + 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 , Russ Allbery , + 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." + Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + 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 + 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 + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support" + From: Chris Faylor + 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 + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX" + From: Peter van Heusden + Msg-ID: , + + 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=?=) + + Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "win32: additional default libraries" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()" + From: Andy Dougherty , Jordan + Mendelson + Files: doio.c + + Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS" + From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk + Msg-ID: + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP" + From: Henrik Tougaard + Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints" + From: Gerd Knops + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "win32: user defined shell" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Files: t/op/magic.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Tests depend on locale" + From: "Jan D." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + 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." + Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se> + Files: t/op/groups.t + + Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs" + From: Hans Mulder + 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 + Files: t/op/split.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs" + From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" + 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." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + 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 reset pos on failure; make C 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 , + Peter Prymmer , + Dan Sugalski + 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 + Msg-ID: <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com> + Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400 + Files: perl.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "In C, 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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: + 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 + 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 + 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 + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_99a +----------------- + +Herein we find the fruits of the gamma. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "(NeXT|Open)Step update" + From: Gerd Knops + Msg-ID: <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com> + Date: Wed, 7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500 + Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: Giles Lean + Msg-ID: <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST) + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "Irix hint update" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600 + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h + + Title: "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99" + From: Gary Clark + Msg-ID: <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com> + Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700 + Files: win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "AFS patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer + Files: Configure installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Three bugs in pod2html" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200 + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp" + From: Ralf S. Engelschall + Msg-ID: <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Newer CPerl mode" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT) + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Updates to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "More explicit Solaris instructions" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "perlfaq9, hostname" + From: John D Groenveld + Msg-ID: <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu> + Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT + Files: pod/perlfaq9.pod + + Title: "Debugger docs patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT) + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "Document that C is just like C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Refresh description of sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Mention the Regular Expressions book" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500 + Files: pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "OS/2 doc patch for _99" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT) + Files: README.os2 + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_99 +---------------- + +"Oops." Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "NeXT hints update" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "Support shared libperl on AIX" + From: Eric Bartley + Msg-ID: <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu> + Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Forget prototype of subroutine after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix sysread() on tied handle" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT) + Files: os2/os2.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Add new globals to perl.exp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.14" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200 + Files: t/io/pipe.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "typo fixes to installhtml" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400 + Files: installhtml + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Fix typo in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_98 +---------------- + +Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma). + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod + pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms + + CORE PORTABILITY + + (no changes) + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Reset errno after failed piped close" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400 + Files: lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod + t/io/pipe.t util.c + + Title: "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400 + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + (no changes) + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlmodlib.pod + + Title: "Add new diagnostics to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97j +----------------- + +This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: matthew green + Msg-ID: <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000 + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c + + Title: "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Eliminate Alpha warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + + Title: "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: taint.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35" + From: Lincoln Stein + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.13" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical" + From: Jesse Glick and Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/SelfLoader.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Split perlmod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Doc fix for close of pipe handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97i +----------------- + +This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the +crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c + + Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes" + From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip + Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Guard against long numbers, <" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "Guard against C to deeply nested label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV" + From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: perl.c util.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Undo private patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Cope with a that isn't related to DB" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall + t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2py.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington + Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + ----------------- Version 5.003_97h -----------------