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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Joerg Schumacher wrote:
<--- my_setenv() problem --->
Maybe I should have piped in before, but I think someone else has
mentioned it : The whole my_setenv / putenv setup was modified somewhat
between 5.00503 and the current devcut due to a bug I reported about a
year ago. Thus, you should do the bugreport, testing and patching against
the latest devcut. Not 5.00503.
Rasmus
> The following two testcases show the bug on my Solaris 5.5.1 box with
> perl5.00503, Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.07 and readline-4.0:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/tmp/perl/bin/perl
> # dumps core if LINES and COLUMNS aren't defined in the env:
> #0 0xef5cc5a0 in _free_unlocked ()
> #1 0xef5cc560 in free ()
> #2 0x507b8 in Perl_safefree (where=0xeffffa79) at util.c:173
> #3 0x550f4 in Perl_magic_clear_all_env (sv=0x0, mg=0xc98e0) at mg.c:785
> #....
> use Term::ReadLine;
> $RL = new Term::ReadLine 'foo';
> undef %ENV;
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/tmp/perl/bin/perl
> # dumps core if LINES and COLUMNS aren't defined in the env:
> #0 0xef5cc5a0 in _free_unlocked ()
> #1 0xef5cc560 in free ()
> #2 0x507b8 in Perl_safefree (where=0xeffffcff) at util.c:173
> #3 0x52af8 in Perl_my_setenv (nam=0xd0128 "PATH", val=0xd1890 "/foobar")
> # at util.c:1443
> #....
> use Term::ReadLine;
> $RL = new Term::ReadLine 'foo';
> $ENV{PATH} = "/foobar";
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I'm not familiar with the perl source so I leave it up to you to
> invent a correct patch.
>
> Regards,
> Joerg
>
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