[ID 20010426.007] perl -e 'open IN, "/etc/hosts\n" or die'

This is a bug report for perl from stefan@hello-penguin.com
generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0.


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[0]--(00:41:46)-(root@stefan)-(~)-> perl -e 'open IN, "/etc/hosts\n" or die'
Died at -e line 1.
[2]--(00:41:53)-(root@stefan)-(~)->

This is quite different to the 5.6.0 behavior which strips trailing
white space.
It is at least a documentation bug.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.7.0:

Configured by root at Sun Nov 26 10:41:26 MET 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 7 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.0-test10-fijiji2, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux stefan 2.4.0-test10-fijiji2 #1 thu nov 9 02:59:15 cet 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/opt'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='pgcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    DEVEL7825

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@INC for perl v5.7.0:
    /opt/lib/perl5/5.7.0/i686-linux
    /opt/lib/perl5/5.7.0
    /opt/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.0/i686-linux
    /opt/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.0
    /opt/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.7.0:
    HOME=/root
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/nt/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin/X11
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash
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  ciao - 
    Stefan

"      Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten.      "
    
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• [ID 20010426.007] perl -e 'open IN, "/etc/hosts\n" or die' by Stefan Traby