develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from May 2013

Re: [perl #114878] Regular Expression matching in signal handlercauses side-effects

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Tim Smith
Date:
May 14, 2013 18:00
Subject:
Re: [perl #114878] Regular Expression matching in signal handlercauses side-effects
Message ID:
20130514090350.GA26084@moominvalley.internal
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 06:47:11PM +0100, Tim Smith wrote:
> On Thursday 09 May 2013 09:03:40 Karl Williamson wrote:
> > The smokes came back ok for this patch, so I've applied it to blead as
> > 47c9d59fcd27684d94480b806b8b6e001aac91cc.  Looking at the code, it makes
> > sense that this patch would fix the problem.
> > 
> > I'm not confident enough in my knowledge of portability issues to write
> > a test case for this, so I'm not closing this bug report.  Perhaps
> > someone else would contribute a test.
> > 
> > In the meantime, tim, perhaps you could compile blead and see if it
> > causes your problem to go away?  Instructions are in perlrepository.
> 
> I will try to have a go at that next week.
> 

OK, I built bleed on a spare machine and ran my bug-provoker. No sign of the
problem after 2 hours. Normally I'd expect it to turn up within 10 seconds.

-- 
Tim Smith <tim@electronghost.co.uk>
Sector Moff mutters insults behind Lord Vader's back; is demoted to corpse
almost instantly.  'That Vader, he kills us,' say Imperial personnel.

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About