27 years agoNote that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 15 May 1997 22:15:00 +0000]
Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}

(this is the same change as commit 1d79a27f835368158fa27370bebb63728faf77b2, but as applied)

27 years ago[dummy merge]
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 15 May 1997 22:15:00 +0000]
[dummy merge]

This merge exists so that the p5p version of the patch and the applied
version are both in the history

27 years agoExplain that destruction order is not defined
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 15 May 1997 22:15:00 +0000]
Explain that destruction order is not defined

(this is the same change as commit e195ec09596d2fe0e528026e48bc809e69e1165e, but as applied)

27 years agoExplain that destruction order is not defined
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 15 May 1997 06:00:23 +0000]
Explain that destruction order is not defined

Subject: Re: perl debugger problem with object destructors?

On Wed, 14 May 1997 15:12:38 MDT, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
>Actually, deterministic destruction/finalization is oft-deemed
>a feature.   If you could check what perltoot has to say about destructors,
>gsar, and suggest an appropriate patch if necessary, I'd appreciate it.

I'd say something like this:

p5p-msgid: 199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu

27 years agoh2xs and @EXPORT_OK
Jeff Okamoto [Fri, 9 May 1997 23:48:20 +0000]
h2xs and @EXPORT_OK

Currently, h2xs emits the line:

use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT);

Should @EXPORT_OK also be added to this list?

p5p-msgid: 199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com

27 years agoFix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1
Chuck D. Phillips [Thu, 15 May 1997 17:35:41 +0000]
Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1

> But I found minor problem here. In some situation, BSD/OS sleep does
> not sleep two seconds (at least in my configuration) and it says
> op/sleep.t failure. If I ran the test suite again, it passed and show
> me 100% OK result.

I just read over t/op/sleep.t.  Frankly, I'm suprised I haven't seen
it fail on HPUX also.  On HPUX, SIGALRM is delivered only _on_ the
second.  Thus, sleep(1) waits until the next even second, sleep(2)
waits until the next even second after that, etc.

The side effect of this is that sleep(1) causes a delay of 0-1 second,
sleep(2) causes a delay of 1-2 seconds, etc.  This *should* cause
intermittant failure of the sleep test as currently written.  I don't
have access to a BSD system, but something similar could be happening
there.

You could argue that this is a bug in the OS sleep().  However, it
means that a loop like...

while (foo()) {
bar();
sleep();
}

...will cycle once-per-second (as long as bar() executes in < 1
second) instead of cycling once-per-(second + bar()-delay).  This
could be construed as a feature.

p5p-msgid: 199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com

27 years agoMake rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure
Tom Phoenix [Sun, 11 May 1997 02:57:30 +0000]
Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Larry Schwimmer wrote:

> Subject: FYI: perl5.00399/t/op/rand.t test 7

>  I know this sounds perverse, but it did happen to fail test 7
> of op/rand.t the very first time I ran make test on a Solaris 2.5.1
> machine, and the test does say to mail the developers if that
> happened.  (-:

And thank you for doing so. Ya done good. :-)

When I wrote that test, I had thought (erroneously, as it turns out) that
that test would never fail, or virtually never. Actually, on Solaris, it
can report a false positive about one time in two-to-the-15th tests.

That test attempts to ensure that srand's default seed isn't the same
twice in a row, which it shouldn't be. But was your test result falsely
positive, or was it a bug for real? We have no way to know.

> It worked fine the next 100 times I ran it and on the other seven
> builds,

Okay, if you had success the next 100 times, it's _probably_ a fluke.
There's no way to know for sure, though, short of finding a bug in the
srand code. :-(

I'm supplying a patch which makes the test more reliable without reducing
the sensitivity to bugs. This should effectively eliminate this problem,
except for unavoidable coincidences.

> but it might be nice to run the test file multiple times to
> reduce the likelihood of a false failure while still catching errant
> builds.

Actually, that wouldn't do the trick. If we ran it five times, and one of
those attempts gets the same srand seed twice, that's _still_
unacceptable. The program has to notify a human, since recompiling perl,
checking the source, and asking for advice are things that humans still do
better than machines. But this patch will make the machine a little better
at knowing when to cry "Wolf!" :-)

Thanks!

p5p-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.96.970510190846.23340K-100000@kelly.teleport.com

27 years agoFix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 4 Feb 1997 16:37:26 +0000]
Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)

27 years agoIn IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:48:55 +0000]
In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)

27 years agoRefresh CGI.pm to 2.36
Lincoln Stein [Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:58:26 +0000]
Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36

27 years ago[dummy merge]
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 15 May 1997 22:15:00 +0000]
[dummy merge]

This merge exists so that the p5p version of the patch and the applied
version are both in the history

27 years agoMake read with <> from a TTY notice EOF
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 15 May 1997 22:15:00 +0000]
Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF

(this is the same change as commit 451e086022facb7867a6764d6ffca2b71e86ff73, but as applied)

27 years agoMake read with <> from a TTY notice EOF
Jonathan I. Kamens [Mon, 12 May 1997 11:47:13 +0000]
Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF

The patch I just sent in wasn't quite correct.  I should have tested
it more before sending it :-).  Here's a correct patch.

p5p-msgid: 199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net

27 years agoFix recursive substitution [test]
Tim Bunce [Tue, 18 Oct 1994 16:46:27 +0000]
Fix recursive substitution [test]

27 years agoVMS update, including socket support (four patches)
Jonathan Hudson [Thu, 1 May 1997 02:20:23 +0000]
VMS update, including socket support (four patches)
Signed-off-by: Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>

27 years agoFix default HP-UX installation path
Jeff Okamoto [Tue, 13 May 1997 22:28:04 +0000]
Fix default HP-UX installation path

private-msgid: 199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com

27 years agoMake Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 8 May 1997 15:03:58 +0000]
Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_99a]
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 7 May 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_99a]

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_99 to perl-5.003_99a]
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 7 May 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_99 to perl-5.003_99a]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: AFS patches
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure installperl

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c

Subject: SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: (NeXT|Open)Step update
Date: Wed,  7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500
From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com>
Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh

    private-msgid: 9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com

Subject: Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
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

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Updates to perldelta
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'
Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Files: pod/perlop.pod
Msg-ID: hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 18270fd3b8aafde2f9ea21ea13adde95ef24b149)

Subject: Document that C<m?x?> is just like C<?x?>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t
Msg-ID: 199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit e9e069932a0db06904b29e2b09a435afd40ed35c)

27 years agoDocument 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'
Gisle Aas [Tue, 6 May 1997 21:27:55 +0000]
Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'

Perhaps we should just document it:

p5p-msgid: hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no

27 years agoOS/2 doc patch for _99
Ilya Zakharevich [Thu, 8 May 1997 00:46:45 +0000]
OS/2 doc patch for _99

It adds some info people judged hard-to-find...

Enjoy,

p5p-msgid: 199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

27 years agoFix for redefined sort subs nastiness
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 9 May 1997 00:04:18 +0000]
Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness

>sub sortfunc { &once }
>sub once {
>    eval q{
> print "Eval from ", join(':', caller(0)), "\n";
> sub rest {
>     print "REST: $a <=> $b\n";
>     $a <=> $b
> }
>    };
>    *sortfunc = *rest;
>    &sortfunc;
>}
>@x = sort sortfunc 10, 5, 2.5, 1.25;

That misbehaves due to the redefinition of the sort sub
while the sort is active.  That's a big no-no, because
the sortcop was pointing to the CvSTART of the original,
and it will now point to freed memory (if the sub really
got undefined).

Here's a tested patch that does nothing but die under
that circumstance.

p5p-msgid: 199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu

27 years ago[dummy merge]
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 7 May 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[dummy merge]

This merge exists so that the p5p version of the patch and the applied
version are both in the history

27 years agoMention the Regular Expressions book
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 7 May 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
Mention the Regular Expressions book

(this is the same change as commit 7dd178533182fc85a734d7633d0a938b5d1c853a, but as applied)

27 years agoMention the Regular Expressions book
Stephen Potter [Wed, 7 May 1997 17:37:37 +0000]
Mention the Regular Expressions book

| Could somebody please add Jfrield's Mastering Regeular Expressions to
| perlbook.pod, and also to a SEE ALSO in perlre.pod?

p5p-msgid: 199705071548.KAA05924@psa.pencom.com
private-msgid: 199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com

27 years agoRefresh description of sprintf()
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 29 Apr 1997 04:33:47 +0000]
Refresh description of sprintf()

27 years agoDebugger docs patch
Ilya Zakharevich [Thu, 8 May 1997 01:07:14 +0000]
Debugger docs patch

New bit 16 of the `frame' option and the new `ornaments' option is
documented.

Enjoy,

p5p-msgid: 199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

27 years agoperlfaq9, hostname
John D Groenveld [Tue, 6 May 1997 17:41:12 +0000]
perlfaq9, hostname

Simple patch...

p5p-msgid: 199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu

27 years agoMore explicit Solaris instructions
Andy Dougherty [Thu, 8 May 1997 21:14:54 +0000]
More explicit Solaris instructions

Here are two patches to try to make the gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/ trick
more apparent.  They were suggested by a user who didn't find the current
hints and INSTALL file sufficiently specific.

As a side effect, you get whatever else I had cooked up to go into the
next INSTALL update.

p5p-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970508171206.438A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu

27 years agoNewer CPerl mode
Ilya Zakharevich [Thu, 8 May 1997 00:32:46 +0000]
Newer CPerl mode

Some major flaws became appparent in older CPerls, and newer ones
prove themselves reasonably good, so here it is (for inclusion into
5.004):

Description of changes is one page down,

Enjoy,

p5p-msgid: 199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

27 years agoTrivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp
Ralf S. Engelschall [Mon, 5 May 1997 14:47:03 +0000]
Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp

private-msgid: 199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com

27 years agoThree bugs in pod2html
Unknown Contributor [Mon, 5 May 1997 22:28:06 +0000]
Three bugs in pod2html

I had three problems with the pod2html distributed with perl 5.00399:

1. The HTML code generated begins with a series of hyperlinks to all
   sections of the file.  Pod directives occurring in the section
   titles (=head directives) were not translated.

2. C<foo()> sets translates to <CODE>foo</CODE> -- the () disappear.

3. Perlpod promises that example code gets typeset with tab stops
   every 8 columns.  HTML makes no such promise, hence pod2html must
   expand tabs.

The first three hunks of the patch below solve #1, hunk 4 fixes a
call to &process_text with the wrong number of args, hunk 5 solves #3
and hunk 6 solves #2.x

p5p-msgid: 199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl

27 years agoAnother blank line patch to Pod::Text
Russ Allbery [Thu, 8 May 1997 18:36:12 +0000]
Another blank line patch to Pod::Text

If an =over/=back block ends just before a =head1 tag, there is an
extraneous blank line before the heading.  This patch fixes that and
doesn't appear to have any negative effects.  The blank line after the
last =item should be provided by the =item's paragraph break.

p5p-msgid: m3afm5g6ar.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU

27 years agoFix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:05:21 +0000]
Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]

27 years agoWin32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99
Gary Clark [Mon, 5 May 1997 17:49:03 +0000]
Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99

In makedef.pl, boot_DynaLoader is defined in $skip_sym.  It should be
included in the __DATA__ section to force it into the dll exports.

p5p-msgid: 1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com

27 years agoHPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs
Chuck D. Phillips [Mon, 5 May 1997 05:48:39 +0000]
HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs

By default, doing a "make test" on a dynamically loaded module with
unresolved symbols will result with a useless error message.  Adding
the BIND_VERBOSE flag will add the names of undefined symbols to the
error message already printed to stderr.  This does *not* affect
default operation; only when PERL_DL_NONLAZY is set does it make a

p5p-msgid: 199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com

27 years agoIrix hint update
Scott Henry [Tue, 6 May 1997 18:09:56 +0000]
Irix hint update

Hopefully, this is the final set of patches for the IRIX hints file
hints/irix_6.sh.  This is rather a multi-person effort, Jarkko and
John Stoffel wrote the major changes (and changed the default to
-n32), I made the last tweaks so that -o32 still works without
errors on the various compiler releases.  I've tested on IRIX-6.2,
IRIX64-6.2, IRIX64-6.4 and IRIX-6.5alpha.

p5p-msgid: yd83es0fp57.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com

27 years agoNetBSD hint update
Giles Lean [Mon, 5 May 1997 13:46:37 +0000]
NetBSD hint update

There is a missing character in hints/netbsd.sh.

Line 51
case "$osver" in

should be
case "$osvers" in

Missing this case leads to the functions

setregid()
setreuid()
setrgid()
setruid()

being used, leading to a security problem on all released versions
of NetBSD.

p5p-msgid: 199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_99]
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_99]

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_98 to perl-5.003_99]
Perl 5 Porters [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_98 to perl-5.003_99]

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: NeXT hints update
Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200
From: Unknown Contributor <hansm@euronet.nl>
Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh

    private-msgid: 199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl

Subject: Support shared libperl on AIX
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500
From: Eric Bartley <bartley@icd.cc.purdue.edu>
Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh
Msg-ID: 199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 019c9bb5516c92cceeeb4b050fa8075a1359c43c)

27 years agoSupport shared libperl on AIX
Eric Bartley [Sun, 27 Apr 1997 01:31:37 +0000]
Support shared libperl on AIX

The current distribution will not build a shared libperl on AIX.

Currently the Makefile generated uses the same ld options for building
a shared libperl and dynamicly loaded extentions.  AIX's compiler
requires that you tell it explicitly what symbols to export/import. So,
it needs a separate set of LD options for each.

On top of all this, AIX doesn't seem to have an equivilent to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So, the directories to search during runtime must be
explicitly compiled in. In the following patch I compiled in both the
compilation directory (for miniperl and testing) and the installation
directory. I wish someone could suggest something cleaner, but it works.

p5p-msgid: 199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu

27 years agoFix typo in perldelta
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:57:56 +0000]
Fix typo in perldelta

27 years agoFix description of av_undef() in perlguts
Gisle Aas [Thu, 1 May 1997 10:42:46 +0000]
Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts

private-msgid: 199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no

27 years ago[dummy merge]
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[dummy merge]

This merge exists so that the p5p version of the patch and the applied
version are both in the history

27 years agotypo fixes to installhtml
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
typo fixes to installhtml

(this is the same change as commit de0d1a7847c16bea152243fdffd9a1bc0e6d8f8a, but as applied)

27 years agotypo fixes to installhtml
Larry W. Virden [Thu, 1 May 1997 11:14:31 +0000]
typo fixes to installhtml

I noticed a few typos in this file so here's a fix.  It's from a strictly
vanilla install.

p5p-msgid: 199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org

27 years agoDisable op/pipe.t test under Machten
Dominic Dunlop [Thu, 1 May 1997 10:48:26 +0000]
Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten

At 09:47 +0200 1997-05-01, I wrote:
>Everything else is as expected, but I'm looking into this:
>
>dialup02 domo$ ./TEST io/pipe.t
>io/pipe...........print failed: Broken pipe at ./io/pipe.t line 86.
>FAILED on test 9

Here's a patch.  It seems MachTen doesn't behave like native UNIX here, so
punt.

Given that VMS doesn't behave like native UNIX either (and there's been
nothing on the list yet about NT and other "aliens"), test 9 looks like a
good emulation exposer.  Is this what we want?  As far as I can make out
from a little mucking about and a reading of ISO 9945-1:1990, MachTen is
behaving in a way that POSIX allows: stdio elects not to buffer writes on
pipes (a defensible decision); a write on a broken pipe fails with EPIPE
and raises SIGPIPE (correct by POSIX); close of a broken pipe succeeds
(correct by POSIX,and OK by perl: nothing's buffered, because the write
failed) if the pipe reader exited with zero status.  Slightly
disconcertingly, I discover that, if I substitute the command 'false' for
'true' as the putative pipe reader, the (perl) close fails.  close() is not
documented as failing if a pipe reader has terminated with a non-zero exit
code.  Is this a documentation shortcoming, a general perl bug, or a
MachTen perl bug?  Whether close() suceeds or fails, $? is set
appropriately.

Whatever, so as to get 5.004 out of the door, either apply this patch or do
away with test 9 entirely, pending deeper reflection.

p5p-msgid: v03102801af8e160d3879@[194.51.248.68]

27 years agoRefresh DB_File to 1.14
Paul Marquess [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:45:09 +0000]
Refresh DB_File to 1.14

Something for _99.

Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and an
ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.

p5p-msgid: 9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk

27 years agoAdd new globals to perl.exp
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 6 Mar 1997 20:53:34 +0000]
Add new globals to perl.exp

27 years agoFix OS/2-specific buffer overflow
Ilya Zakharevich [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:20:01 +0000]
Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow

private-msgid: 199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

27 years agoFix sysread() on tied handle
Spider Boardman [Thu, 1 May 1997 06:01:20 +0000]
Fix sysread() on tied handle

Found in both perldelta.pod and perltie.pod:

: =item READ this LIST
:
: This method will be called when the handle is read from via the C<read>
: or C<sysread> functions.

This isn't true without the following patch:

p5p-msgid: 199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US

27 years agoHandle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals
Chip Salzenberg [Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:55:09 +0000]
Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals

27 years agoForget prototype of subroutine after C<undef &subr>
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:34:21 +0000]
Forget prototype of subroutine after C<undef &subr>

27 years agoFix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 05:27:58 +0000]
Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97j to perl-5.003_98]
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97j to perl-5.003_98]

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Add new diagnostics to perldelta
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod

27 years agoSupport C< $coderef->($x,$y) >
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >

Randal Schwartz said:
> Some time in October, 1994, Larry Wall said:
> > : All other references you can follow with ->, what about code refs?
> > Aw, look, I'd really like that feature in, but I think it's a bit
> > too close to the release for that.
> Hey Chip,
> Look, Larry said he'd really like that feature

Larry said that?  That change is like two lines, it's in!

Tricked-into-doing-by: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>

27 years agoDescribe Math::Trig in perlmodlib
Chip Salzenberg [Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:39:00 +0000]
Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib

27 years agoFix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()
Spider Boardman [Wed, 30 Apr 1997 04:48:13 +0000]
Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()

Problem with -Duseperlio:

cc: Warning: perlio.c, line 302: Non-void function "PerlIO_getname" does not contain a return statement.
char *
^

p5p-msgid: 199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US

27 years ago[dummy merge]
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[dummy merge]

This merge exists so that the p5p version of the patch and the applied
version are both in the history

27 years agoReset errno after failed piped close
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
Reset errno after failed piped close

(this is the same change as commit 00db273fa22ecba6466df777a772c6017c403a96, but as applied)

27 years agoReset errno after failed piped close
Roderick Schertler [Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:02:20 +0000]
Reset errno after failed piped close

Chip had asked me to redo the pclose patches against 97j.  I'm sending
them here to encourage others to try them out since _98 looms so near.
Also included are the patches I'd sent on Friday for the bugs Gisle
reported with Time::{localtime,gmtime}, with these this message contains
all my outstanding patches.

p5p-msgid: 28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com

27 years agoFix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >
Chip Salzenberg [Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:42:33 +0000]
Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97j]
Chip Salzenberg [Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97j]

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97i to perl-5.003_97j]
Perl 5 Porters [Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97i to perl-5.003_97j]

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.h

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c

27 years agoDoc fix for close of pipe handle
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:55:38 +0000]
Doc fix for close of pipe handle

27 years agoDescribe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:16:44 +0000]
Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta

27 years agoSplit perlmod
Tom Christiansen [Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:50:09 +0000]
Split perlmod

private-msgid: 199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com

27 years agoSelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical
Jesse Glick [Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:18:01 +0000]
SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical
Signed-off-by: Jesse Glick <jesse@ginger>

27 years agoRefresh DB_File to 1.13
Paul Marquess [Sun, 27 Apr 1997 14:12:59 +0000]
Refresh DB_File to 1.13

Subject: DB_File 1.13 patch

Here is the patch to (hopefully) fix the casting warnings.

p5p-msgid: 9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk

27 years agoRefresh CGI.pm to 2.35
Lincoln Stein [Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:22:51 +0000]
Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35

27 years agoFix possible buffer overflow under VMS
Chip Salzenberg [Sat, 1 Mar 1997 06:14:33 +0000]
Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS

27 years agoFix typo in NeXT dynaloader
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:29:12 +0000]
Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader

27 years agoEliminate Alpha warnings
Hallvard B Furuseth [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:45:10 +0000]
Eliminate Alpha warnings
Signed-off-by: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>

27 years agoFix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:27:36 +0000]
Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK

27 years agoWin32 update (three patches)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:13:30 +0000]
Win32 update (three patches)
Signed-off-by: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>

27 years agoHP-UX hint update
Chuck D. Phillips [Mon, 28 Apr 1997 05:35:07 +0000]
HP-UX hint update

Subject: suggested changes to hpux hints file

NOTE: It *might* not work under 11.x, but at least it's not guaranteed
to fail.  :-)

p5p-msgid: 199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com

27 years agoNetBSD hint update
matthew green [Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:18:02 +0000]
NetBSD hint update

hi folks... been a while since i posted here...

someone told me that 5.004 was happening RFSN... so i thought it was
time to update the hints/netbsd.sh file, as it needs it.

p5p-msgid: 199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97i]
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97i]

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97h to perl-5.003_97i]
Perl 5 Porters [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97h to perl-5.003_97i]

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Provide memset() if it's missing
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c

Subject: Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: proto.h

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod

    private-msgid: 199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes
From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c

Subject: Enforce order of sprintf() elements
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c

Subject: Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c

Subject: Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: util.c

Subject: Win32: Guard against long function names
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: win32/win32sck.c

Subject: Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c util.c

Subject: When copying a format line, take only its string value
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Fix LEAKTEST numbers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c

27 years agoDocument new {,s}printf() behavior
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 23:48:51 +0000]
Document new {,s}printf() behavior

27 years agoFix buffer overflow in a2p
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:49:15 +0000]
Fix buffer overflow in a2p

27 years agoMath::{Complex,Trig} update
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:21:44 +0000]
Math::{Complex,Trig} update

private-msgid: 199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi

27 years agoHandle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path
Chip Salzenberg [Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:47:04 +0000]
Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path

27 years agoDon't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL
Chip Salzenberg [Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:11:20 +0000]
Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL

27 years agoAlways NUL-terminate opsets
Chip Salzenberg [Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:37:00 +0000]
Always NUL-terminate opsets

27 years agoCope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:28:39 +0000]
Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB

private-msgid: 199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi

27 years agoUndo private patch
Chip Salzenberg [Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:06:24 +0000]
Undo private patch

27 years agoFix scalar leak in pp_prtf()
Doug MacEachern [Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:06:21 +0000]
Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()

private-msgid: 199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97h]
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97h]

27 years ago[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97g to perl-5.003_97h]
Perl 5 Porters [Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:00:00 +0000]
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97g to perl-5.003_97h]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
Msg-ID: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 1eb1b1cb9647b817d039bb17afa3e74940b5ef92)

Subject: There is no standard answer to 'Use suidperl?'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: hints/bsdos.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh hints/machten_2.sh

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Support PRINTF for tied handles
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
Msg-ID: 199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit e7c5525577c16ee25e3521e86aca2b5105dba394)

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod

    private-msgid: 199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c

Subject: Problems with glob
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: op.c
Msg-ID: 1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit a1230b335277820e65b8a9454ab751341204cf4f)

Subject: Fix scalar leak in closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c scope.c

Subject: Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Outermost scope is void, not scalar
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_ctl.c

27 years agoFix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch
Andy Dougherty [Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:02:27 +0000]
Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch

perl5.003_97[mumble,mumble] contained some hints to work around a csh bug
in some versions of Linux.

Unfortunately, that hint doesn't work for a variety of reasons.  If
anyone's really interested in the anatomy of a failed hint, I can oblige.
Or you can just trust me :-)

p5p-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu
private-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e

27 years agoTwo doublewords less
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 20 Apr 1997 19:38:13 +0000]
Two doublewords less

private-msgid: 199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi

27 years agoProblems with glob
Ilya Zakharevich [Sun, 20 Apr 1997 06:44:32 +0000]
Problems with glob

This patch seems to make it on _93 (I recall that on _93 overwritten
`glob' just does not make it for <blah>):

p5p-msgid: 1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

27 years agoDon't put leading newline on numeric strings
Andreas Koenig [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:47:00 +0000]
Don't put leading newline on numeric strings

Subject: NeXT fails one test due to atoi

pragme/constants has a test that does the equivalent of:

    print " \t\n1234" == 1234 ? "ok" : "not ok";

This test prints "not ok" on the NeXT. Here's some background how the
NeXT behaves with several leading whitespaces.

    koenig@franz:/M/extra/sources/perl/perl5.003_97% perl -le '
    print " \t\n1234" == 1234 ? "ok" : "not ok";
    print " 1234" == 1234 ? "ok" : "not ok";
    print "\t1234" == 1234 ? "ok" : "not ok";
    print "\n1234" == 1234 ? "ok" : "not ok";
    '
    not ok
    ok
    ok
    not ok

I'd recommend the following patch:

p5p-msgid: 199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de

27 years agoSupport PRINTF for tied handles
Doug MacEachern [Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:26:13 +0000]
Support PRINTF for tied handles

A mod_perl user just asked why "print ..." is sent to the browser but
"printf ..." goes to the term window.  Sorry this is coming in late,
this question has been asked a few times in the past, but I forgot
about it :-(

p5p-msgid: 199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org

27 years agoSilence warnings on simple C<use ops>
Roderick Schertler [Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:22:43 +0000]
Silence warnings on simple C<use ops>

private-msgid: pzybafum6k.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com

27 years agoCroak on C<use autouse> without module name
Chip Salzenberg [Tue, 1 Apr 1997 18:17:04 +0000]
Croak on C<use autouse> without module name

27 years agoMath::Complex update
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000]
Math::Complex update

27 years agoWin32 update (two patches)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000]
Win32 update (two patches)

27 years ago[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97g]
Chip Salzenberg [Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000]
[differences between cumulative patch application and perl-5.003_97g]