Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:33:01 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: t/lib/abbrev.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
XYZ not necessarily gt xyz.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
\n not necessarily lt ' '.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:38:57 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: sv.h
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:31:46 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: sv.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets(). These were useful
to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in
case they're useful to someone in the future. However, if you
think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it. (-DP
already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: proto.h
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:26:57 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pp_sys.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch to patch for untainting
The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that
has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a
re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be
considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of
its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method,
then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't
work. Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core.
Randy J. Ray [Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:58:22 +0000]
Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
Joseph S. Myers [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Bugs found in pod2man
The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed:
1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not
treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been
rearranged to place the link on one line. This is the only bug worked
around. [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand,
remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs
can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod,
without breaking links.]
2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part
of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the
\f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source
having been "L</binmode> for tips". [Fixed.]
3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass
by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'.
4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff
from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction.
5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this
confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins
with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead
of basic functions."'.
Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod
modules, when ready, will not have these defects.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 2 Oct 1996 20:52:08 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlvar.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perltrap.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: a perl425 trap
Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
[interpolation issues]
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Daniel S. Lewart [Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:55:18 +0000]
POD spelling patches
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlre.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 4 Oct 1996 14:36:19 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlop.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlmod.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
written.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:18:01 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlguts.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch
Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This
incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perldiag.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlpod.pod pod/perlref.pod pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltie.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:46:51 +0000]
Updated for Second Edition.
Daniel S. Lewart [Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:55:18 +0000]
POD spelling patches
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: pod/perl.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
perli18n advertised.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:31:46 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: perlsdio.h
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400
From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com>
Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Hunter Kelly [Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:58:00 +0000]
Re: 5.003_05 is available.
Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:27:35 +0000]
Add new function perl_init_fold. (I'm not sure it goes here.)
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:13:28 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: perl.h
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
applied, use this one instead.
The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
5.003.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:02:17 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: perl.c
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC
support C<perl -e'attached code'>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
Message-Id: <
199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Jonathan Biggar [Mon, 16 Sep 1996 23:37:48 +0000]
Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
C++ compiler.
Spider Boardman [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:13:28 +0000]
Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:13:28 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: mg.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
to the numeric value of $!.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
related to the numeric values of $! and $^E. This patch *REPLACES*
the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!.
[Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.]
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:11:29 +0000]
Not all sbrks return zeroed memory.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:27:58 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: makedepend.SH
Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently
preserves modification times for a 'cp' command.
I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2.
If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement.
Ilya Zakharevich [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:34:58 +0000]
Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 02:44:32 +0000]
Add in stub file.
Ulrich Pfeifer [Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:33:01 +0000]
Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
Ulrich Pfeifer [Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:11:38 +0000]
Patch for Term::Cap
'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
patch below avoids the warning.
[The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be
ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.]
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/Symbol.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'
I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from
<DATA> in the first place. Perhaps we want to apply this patch
instead.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Gisle Aas [Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:02:42 +0000]
look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/
The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
of tr/A-Z/a-z/. This will make folding of non-english letters work if
the locale is set up correctly.
Raphael Manfredi [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:38:08 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/Math/Complex.pm
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
# Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
# -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
# New version. Should be backwards compatible, but please
# check it out if you use it.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
ord() is a dangerous thing.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away)
Michael De La Rue [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 19:37:44 +0000]
File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug
The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged
through the user defined function which is callbacked from find. It carries
out a stat operation
Simplest fix is merely to document this
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:58:52 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/File/Basename.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS
The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: File::Basename documentation patch
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
File::Basename was also wrong:
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:30:49 +0000]
Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1).
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:31:46 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Joseph S. Myers [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib}
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/Benchmark.pm
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Subject: a really really tiny typo
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:54:37 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: lib/AutoLoader.pm
Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent
> This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
filename manipulations:
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix
It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
function. With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.
This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
updating its documentation.
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:38:57 +0000]
Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:13:28 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: hv.c
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Andreas Koenig [Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:11:06 +0000]
Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off
the optimizier.
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:44:31 +0000]
Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC.
Kenneth Albanowski [Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:33:15 +0000]
Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
applied, use this one instead.
The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: global.sym
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:36:39 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
5.003.
Andreas Koenig [Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:11:06 +0000]
Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
setlocale() allowed one argument only,
call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc.
Perl 5 Porters [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:00:05 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: dev/null
Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests.
The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system,
ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against
-lc when compiling. (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile
statically)
Joseph S. Myers [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:08:34 +0000]
Updated to IO-1.12.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:58:13 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: dump.c embed.h gv.c run.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Spider Boardman [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:13:28 +0000]
Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Charles Bailey [Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:31:46 +0000]
VMS patches to 5.003_05
Sven Verdoolaege [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:01:05 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: configure
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have
accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'.
Joseph S. Myers [Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:08:33 +0000]
Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:13:47 +0000]
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:11:06 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: MANIFEST
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added perli18n.pod.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:03:00 +0000]
LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added LC_COLLATE doc.
Sven Verdoolaege [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:01:05 +0000]
perl 5.003_06: Configure
Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared
libperl.so
Add /shlib to libpth. It is used by Digital Unix 4.0.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled
into thinking it's OS/2.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 8 Oct 1996 02:54:09 +0000]
Updated for 5.003_06.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:47:47 +0000]
Change to subversion 6.
Andy Dougherty [Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:54:17 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: [patch introduction and re-organisation]
# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
touch t/io/read.t
chmod +x t/io/read.t
exit 0
This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04.
This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05.
To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type
patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat
The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below. This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
Patch and enjoy,
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:16:19 +0000]
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:12:28 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: utils/perldoc.PL
More choices in the pager war. Unfortunately, we can't rely on
all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we
assign a default preference order, since opinions vary. If the
user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that
at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found.
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:12:01 +0000]
Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'};
Ilya Zakharevich [Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:09:20 +0000]
updated h2xs
Changes:
a) Docs and examples for -x updated;
b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h
unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error
there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I
inside -F.
c) .h file would be scanned only if needed.
d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ).
e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be
included into POD.
f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated;
g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that
xsubpp would probably choke on such guys).
-x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to
ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
should propagate to CPAN soon).
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:06:04 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: unixish.h
Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't
think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments.
Graham Barr [Thu, 29 Aug 1996 06:05:10 +0000]
Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted
yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
is an object, so the patch should be
Kenneth Albanowski [Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:49:22 +0000]
Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:00:14 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: t/op/inc.t util.c
One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
Lupe Christoph [Wed, 4 Sep 1996 02:54:41 +0000]
Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t
io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with.
It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10
seconds or until an alarm arrives.
With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child
has a chance to ignore the alarm signal.
I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the
fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 3 Sep 1996 01:53:21 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: t/io/read.t
Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
Chip Salzenberg [Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:26:42 +0000]
Minor potential bug in AV creation
Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had
Perl_debug_log instead.
I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it
would improve the safety of AV creation.
Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt.
'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of
char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:11:03 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pp_sys.c
Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to
just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE. This probably only
applies to SCO. This shows the perils of having internal
functions with the same name as external library functions :-).
Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available.
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:14:51 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pp_hot.c
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: minor misc. cleanup
This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
in functionality whatsoever.
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Subject: more TIEHANDLE
This adds support for a READLINE method.
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:49:22 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pp.c
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics
This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
(double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 8 Sep 1996 22:09:04 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pod/perlvar.pod
Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines
with no spaces or tabs.
Change blank lines to empty lines.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 8 Sep 1996 22:09:04 +0000]
More (and less!) 425traps
Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4
and Perl 5.
Large integer traps
Precedence
warn STDERR
Change blank lines to empty lines.
Sven Verdoolaege [Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:14:51 +0000]
more TIEHANDLE
This adds support for a READLINE method.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 8 Sep 1996 20:39:59 +0000]
Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:03:53 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pod/perlfunc.pod
Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:24:21 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: dev/null
New script to check for common errors in pods. This is not
normally called during the perl build process, but you can
use it with B<make check>.
Perl 5 Porters [Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:26:45 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: pod/Makefile
Remove trailing spaces in pods.
Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's
not ordinarily used by users).
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:11:14 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: perlsdio.h
Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen.
Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname.
s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo.
This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere.
Include PerlIO_canset_cnt. I'm not sure how this is supposed to
differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE.
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:11:03 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: perlio.c
Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning
Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions.
Perl 5 Porters [Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:26:18 +0000]
perl 5.003_05: perl.h
One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
[gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.