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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
March 12, 2007 03:35
Subject:
Re: Isn't it High Time for perl-5.8.9?
Message ID:
79489c230703120334r6795395egb15ee1ea14ee128f@mail.gmail.com
On 3/12/07, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> >> There are several bugs that I'm aware of in perl-5.8.x.
> >> The one that most bothers me is:
> >>
> >> http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31605
> >>
> >> Which was introduced in perl-5.8.8 and did not exist in perl-5.8.7. It makes
> >> debugging many programs including most Test::More-based test scripts very
> >> painful.
> >>
> >> Another bug that I'm aware of is:
> >>
> >> http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/31775
> >>
> >> It existed in the entire perl-5.8.x branch and may have some security
> >> implications.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Shlomi, are you able to submit these as patches against Perl maint,
> > adding test cases? Perhaps in rt.perl.org tickets? It's quite a bit of
> > work to extract this from your use.perl.org postings...
> >
>
> Bah, sorry, didn't see #40095.

You probably mean
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40995 . Since it was
marked as resolved, I opened a duplicate one:

http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=41188

> But I don't see one for the other one,
> did you open one?

I don't think I did. However, it was discussed on perl5-porters:

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2006-11/thrd5.html#00415

Regards,

       Shlomi Fish

>
> Sam.
>


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If his programming is anything like his philosophising, he
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