[ID 20000310.020] ENV{PATH}="..." fails in debugger

This is a bug report for perl from sbeck@cise.ufl.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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When running a script in the debugger which sets the PATH, the
debugger hangs on that line.

   % perl -de 0
   
   Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.0402
   Emacs support available.

   Enter h or `h h' for help.

   main::(-e:1):   0
     DB<1> $ENV{"PATH"}="/bin:/usr/bin"

and at that point, it hangs and I have to kill the process.

Is there a way around this or is there something that I've done
wrong to cause this?

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by sbeck at Thu Jan 13 11:17:25 EST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread
    uname='sunos cave 5.6 generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-2 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-xO4', gccversion=
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris-thread/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    .
    /cis/homes/sbeck/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris-thread
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris-thread
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/cis/homes/sbeck
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_COLLATE=C
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/cis/homes/sbeck/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:.
    PERLLIB=.:/cis/homes/sbeck/perl
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/zsh

• [ID 20000310.020] ENV{PATH}="..." fails in debugger by sbeck
• Re: [ID 20000310.020] ENV{PATH}="..." fails in debugger by M.J.T. Guy