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> I think it had an effect if you applied it to the hash elements, but I
> don't think it ever did anything to the hash itself.
Actually, that's wrong, setting a hash to readonly did affect its behaviour
even on 5.6.1, as the following test from the module test script checks:
# Check readonly-ness of hash structure.
eval { $ks->{cpu_info}{$cpu}{$cpu_info} = {}; };
print($@ =~ /^Modification of a read-only/i ? "ok $test\n" : "not ok $test\n");
So the reuse of the readonly bit to implement restricted hashes has indeed
broken existing working code. I'm now faced with having to have 2 versions
of the module :-(
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Alan Burlison
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