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perldelta for 7bdb4ff09
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:20:17 +0000 (11:20 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:25:36 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index 3acc296..1e881ed 100644 (file)
@@ -462,6 +462,12 @@ the sequence is used, again just as before.
 Tainted constants evaluated at compile time no longer cause unrelated
 statements to become tainted.  [perl #122669]
 
+=item *
+
+C<open $$fh, ...>, which vivifies a handle with a name like "main::_GEN_0",
+was not giving the handle the right reference count, so a double free could
+happen.
+
 =back
 
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