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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem behind this can be summarized to this: «during open() a > PerlIO layer that defines an Open method can not be pushed on top of > another layer that doesn't define Open». There are two possible > workarounds for this: > > a) Implement Open in all layers that don't implement it now. > b) Change the lookup mechanism in all existing Open methods. > > I decided to implement option a, because it seem to be the least > intrusive way to tackle this problem. In the first patch, I introduce > PerlIOBase_open, a generic open method that does what 90%+ of all > modules want it to do (open the layer beneath it, and then push the > current layer on top of it). It also updates the documentation to > advise people to use it. > > The second patch used this to fix this bug (#82484). The third patch > fixes #80764 using the same Open method (consider my previous patch > for that bug retracted in favor of this one). These two patches are > quite trivial :-). > > Leon It seems my patch missed something important: it didn't export the PerlIOBase_open(). Missed it since they're exported weirdly. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next