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> From: Father Chrysostomos [mailto:sprout@cpan.org] > Paul Marquess wrote: > > Regarding the patch, I'm confused why C::R::Zlib needs updates, but > > C::R::Bzip2 doesn't. The XS code is practically identical (because I > > recycled Zlib.xs when I was writing Bzip2.xs), so I don't understand > > why there isn't a COW issue with both? > > Presumably it does. I only fixed the issues that caused test failures in > the perl core under -Accflags=-DPERL_DEBUG_READONLY_COW. Those failures > were in IO::Compress's tests, so presumably it tests with ::Zlib by default? The IO::Compress tests use both Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2. > If you take the tests I included in the patch and adjust them for Bzip2, > do they fail with it? Yep - they do. Merged the patch into Compress::Raw::Bzip2 Uploaded new versions (2.064) of the all the compression modules to CPAN. PaulThread Previous