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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:16:57AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> This is a bug report for perl from nick@talking.bollo.cx,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0.
>
>
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> [Please enter your report here]
>
> What's the <expletive> point of example code if it's buggy?
> Not only do some of the perlipc code fail to compile in the first place,
> but even when you fix those bugs two have subtle precedence bugs w.r.t.
> "or" versus "||" and scalar/list context.
>
> Bugs remaining
>
> 1: I've no idea what the missing text after "We'll" should be:
>
> a time. Multithreaded servers are covered in Chapter 6 of
> the Camel.
>
> Here's the code. We'll
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>
> 2: The example that follows uses Net::hostent. It's not working becuse
> Net::hostent in bleadperl is shagged.
>
> 3: Net::hostent doesn't have a regression test to detected that it's shagged.
Writing a portable test that still tests anything useful for the
gethost* is tough. Remember that the contents or the existence of the
/etc/hosts file might be largely irrelevant to to results of the
gethost* calls.
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