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21 years agoRe: [perl #16834] Anomolous behaviour of SUBSTR() used as LValue
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [Wed, 7 May 2003 23:37:47 +0000 (16:37 -0700)]
Re: [perl #16834] Anomolous behaviour of SUBSTR() used as LValue
Message-ID: <7sfu+gzkg+AY092yn@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19456

21 years agoMissing files.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 9 May 2003 03:36:54 +0000 (03:36 +0000)]
Missing files.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19455

21 years agoSuppress a few compilation warnings in pp_hot.c.
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 8 May 2003 18:49:25 +0000 (18:49 +0000)]
Suppress a few compilation warnings in pp_hot.c.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19454

21 years agoRemove duplicate entries from perldiag
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 8 May 2003 18:42:16 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
Remove duplicate entries from perldiag

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19453

21 years agoRe: [perl #17718] %tiedhash in bool context doesn't check if hash is empty
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [Wed, 7 May 2003 15:27:07 +0000 (08:27 -0700)]
Re: [perl #17718] %tiedhash in bool context doesn't check if hash is empty
Message-ID: <7gYu+gzkgaFU092yn@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19452

21 years agoTiny nit from mjd.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 8 May 2003 17:47:13 +0000 (17:47 +0000)]
Tiny nit from mjd.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19451

21 years agoUpgrade to Tie::File 0.95.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 8 May 2003 17:46:26 +0000 (17:46 +0000)]
Upgrade to Tie::File 0.95.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19450

21 years ago[perl #22141] patch for Time::HiRes to get rid of -lrt on linux
Marc Lehmann [Thu, 8 May 2003 00:42:18 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
[perl #22141] patch for Time::HiRes to get rid of -lrt on linux
From: Marc Lehmann (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
Message-Id: <rt-22141-56710.3.69543054121962@bugs6.perl.org>
Date: 8 May 2003 00:42:18 -0000

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19449

21 years agoalphabetize perldiag.pod
Ronald J. Kimball [Thu, 8 May 2003 11:52:39 +0000 (07:52 -0400)]
alphabetize perldiag.pod
Message-ID: <20030508155239.GC1495587@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19448

21 years ago[perl #22127] get(av|cv|hv|sv) added to Devel::PPPort
Tassilo von Parseval [Thu, 8 May 2003 08:42:20 +0000 (10:42 +0200)]
[perl #22127] get(av|cv|hv|sv) added to Devel::PPPort
Message-id: <20030508064220.GA763@ethan>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19447

21 years agoA variant of
Adrian M. Enache [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:54:05 +0000 (05:54 +0300)]
A variant of

Subject: Re: 0 is not perl (was Re: Report /export/home/nwc10/Gripping-Smoke/Smoke)
Message-ID: <20030421235405.GA1162@ratsnest.hole>

to quench the black smoke from the BSD builds.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19445

21 years agoRe: [DOC PATCH] & More File::Path issues
Casey West [Mon, 5 May 2003 13:25:47 +0000 (09:25 -0400)]
Re: [DOC PATCH] & More File::Path issues
Message-ID: <20030505172547.GB20508@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19444

21 years agoSpelling correction from Nicholas Clark.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 7 May 2003 20:03:58 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
Spelling correction from Nicholas Clark.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19443

21 years agoOne more possible extensions permutation.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 7 May 2003 19:20:53 +0000 (19:20 +0000)]
One more possible extensions permutation.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19440

21 years agoAllow platforms to manipulate their archname by creating
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 7 May 2003 16:58:21 +0000 (16:58 +0000)]
Allow platforms to manipulate their archname by creating
a archname.cbu in their hints files.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19437

21 years agoMore long double logic from Alan Burlison.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 7 May 2003 16:53:26 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
More long double logic from Alan Burlison.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19436

21 years agoWorth a try for [perl #17146]
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 6 May 2003 15:21:55 +0000 (15:21 +0000)]
Worth a try for [perl #17146]

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19435

21 years agoDocument which interfaces are NOT Unicode-aware.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 6 May 2003 05:12:23 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
Document which interfaces are NOT Unicode-aware.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19433

21 years ago[perl #8063] perlfilter doesn't mention potential DATA clobber
Casey West [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:07:36 +0000 (07:07 -0400)]
[perl #8063] perlfilter doesn't mention potential DATA clobber
Message-ID: <20030428150736.GD62281@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19432

21 years ago[patch] Re: [perl #21728] regexp SEGV
Adrian M. Enache [Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:53:09 +0000 (01:53 +0200)]
[patch] Re: [perl #21728] regexp SEGV
Message-ID: <20030328215309.GA6413@ratsnest.hole>
(with minor tweaks)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19431

21 years agoFix doc bug #22067, noticed by Mark Knutsen
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 5 May 2003 20:01:36 +0000 (20:01 +0000)]
Fix doc bug #22067, noticed by Mark Knutsen

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19430

21 years agoFix : the svr5 hints file doesn't propagate libswanted with
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 5 May 2003 18:59:59 +0000 (18:59 +0000)]
Fix : the svr5 hints file doesn't propagate libswanted with
threads enabled. Now threads are OK on OpenUNIX 8, except a
mysterious failure in ext/POSIX/t/sigaction.t.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19429

21 years agoSnip away the perlunicode slowness demo since the new
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 16:54:34 +0000 (16:54 +0000)]
Snip away the perlunicode slowness demo since the new
caching scheme should help things a bit.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19428

21 years agoRe: Minor change to strict.pm. Who? How?
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 16:14:09 +0000 (16:14 +0000)]
Re: Minor change to strict.pm. Who? How?
From: Adam Kennedy <adam@ali.as>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:02:40 +1000
Message-ID: <3EAE8600.2000806@ali.as>

Subject: [PATCH] Re: Minor change to strict.pm. Who? How?
From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:26:32 -0700
Message-ID: <20030429192632.GA6129@windhund.schwern.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19427

21 years ago[DOC PATCH] missing ')' in File::Path docs
Jos I. Boumans [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:45:16 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
[DOC PATCH] missing ')' in File::Path docs
From: "Jos I.Boumans" <kane@dwim.org>
Message-ID: <20030430114513165+0200@nntp.perl.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19426

21 years agoSimpler $Revision$ based $VERSION. Plus, repentance!
Michael G. Schwern [Sat, 3 May 2003 15:30:16 +0000 (08:30 -0700)]
Simpler $Revision$ based $VERSION. Plus, repentance!
Message-ID: <20030503223016.GE1234@windhund.schwern.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19425

21 years ago[perl #3096] undefing hash with object values
Dave Mitchell [Thu, 1 May 2003 21:06:57 +0000 (22:06 +0100)]
[perl #3096] undefing hash with object values
Message-ID: <20030501200657.GA25456@fdgroup.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19424

21 years agoRe: hv.c patch - pathological hashes too easy
Tye McQueen [Thu, 1 May 2003 13:34:50 +0000 (08:34 -0500)]
Re: hv.c patch - pathological hashes too easy
From: "Tye McQueen" <tye@metronet.com>
Message-Id: <200305011834.h41IYoE08503@metronet.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19423

21 years ago[perl #18341] random nits in perlrequick.pod
Casey West [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:14:20 +0000 (12:14 -0400)]
[perl #18341] random nits in perlrequick.pod
Message-ID: <20030429201420.GT62281@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19422

21 years agoExtUtils::Install and the don't-really-do-it switch
Slaven Rezic [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:42:11 +0000 (02:42 +0200)]
ExtUtils::Install and the don't-really-do-it switch
Message-Id: <200304232242.h3NMgBqD028515@vran.herceg.de>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19421

21 years agoh2xs generates false comments about ABSTRACT
Steve Hay [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:52:30 +0000 (10:52 +0100)]
h2xs generates false comments about ABSTRACT
Message-ID: <3EAF8ECE.8060403@uk.radan.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19420

21 years agoReintroduce the mention of the fact that the Artistic/GPL
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 08:20:34 +0000 (08:20 +0000)]
Reintroduce the mention of the fact that the Artistic/GPL
also are Perl's own licenses.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19419

21 years agoSwitch the new perlio way of opening anonymous temporary files
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 07:23:57 +0000 (07:23 +0000)]
Switch the new perlio way of opening anonymous temporary files
open my $fh, '+>', undef
to using File::Temp.  Test it, and test also the "accidental
feature" of +< working the same way.
This should address [perl #21937].

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19418

21 years agoperlartistic and perlgpl reformatting from Sean Burke.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 05:52:47 +0000 (05:52 +0000)]
perlartistic and perlgpl reformatting from Sean Burke.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19417

21 years agopack/unpack fixes from Wolfgang Laun:
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 05:33:43 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
pack/unpack fixes from Wolfgang Laun:
- fix bug in UNICOS (where SIZE16 != sizeof(short))
- introduce and use new internal pack/unpack API
  (packlist, unpackstring)
  that does away with the unused arguments in the old API
  (pack_cat, unpack_str).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19416

21 years agoEmbed.t flushing problem
Craig A. Berry [Sun, 4 May 2003 16:25:38 +0000 (11:25 -0500)]
Embed.t flushing problem
From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
Message-ID: <3EB58552.2070207@mac.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19415

21 years agoDoc nit from mjd.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 5 May 2003 04:52:37 +0000 (04:52 +0000)]
Doc nit from mjd.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19414

21 years agoNone of that "our" stuff here, please.
Abhijit Menon-Sen [Mon, 5 May 2003 04:03:10 +0000 (04:03 +0000)]
None of that "our" stuff here, please.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19413

21 years agoOops. More Storable 2.07 preparations.
Abhijit Menon-Sen [Mon, 5 May 2003 03:57:06 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
Oops. More Storable 2.07 preparations.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19412

21 years agoUpdate changelog for 2.07 release.
Abhijit Menon-Sen [Mon, 5 May 2003 03:53:44 +0000 (03:53 +0000)]
Update changelog for 2.07 release.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19411

21 years agoUpdate Changes.
Abhijit Menon-Sen [Mon, 5 May 2003 03:31:36 +0000 (03:31 +0000)]
Update Changes.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19410

21 years agoRe: Bug in Storable???
Slaven Rezic [Sun, 4 May 2003 18:00:40 +0000 (20:00 +0200)]
Re: Bug in Storable???
Message-Id: <87of2iwvkn.fsf@vran.herceg.de>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19409

21 years agoThis way reads a bit better with pod2man.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 4 May 2003 19:39:01 +0000 (19:39 +0000)]
This way reads a bit better with pod2man.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19407

21 years agoIntegrate from maint:
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 4 May 2003 12:01:00 +0000 (12:01 +0000)]
Integrate from maint:
[ 18568]
Add the POSIX::sigaction() trick by Slaven Rezic
for [perl #17341].
p4raw-link: @18568 on //depot/maint-5.8/perl: b63b4058977cacb57fd0a26b3de014d3f4ca3296

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19406
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.8/perl@18568 'merge in'
pod/perlipc.pod (@18197..) pod/perlfunc.pod (@18379..)

21 years agoAdd Artistic as perlartistic and GPL (the Copying) as perlgpl;
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 4 May 2003 09:25:48 +0000 (09:25 +0000)]
Add Artistic as perlartistic and GPL (the Copying) as perlgpl;
regen perltoc, perlmodlib.  The GPL added as verbatim as possible,
the perlartistic is a straightforward podification.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19401

21 years agoDoesn't make any difference for the test but is more logical.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 4 May 2003 08:19:14 +0000 (08:19 +0000)]
Doesn't make any difference for the test but is more logical.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19398

21 years agoPlagued by thinkos tonight.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 15:42:54 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
Plagued by thinkos tonight.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19396

21 years agoMust skip more.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 15:37:35 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
Must skip more.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19395

21 years agoRe: Does filetest work at all?
Slaven Rezic [Sat, 3 May 2003 18:26:49 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
Re: Does filetest work at all?
Message-ID: <87ade4q9me.fsf@vran.herceg.de>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19394

21 years agoExtra tweakage from Rafael for #19392.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 05:34:21 +0000 (05:34 +0000)]
Extra tweakage from Rafael for #19392.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19393

21 years agoSalvage 'use filetest "access"' from compiletime to runtime.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 05:33:04 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
Salvage 'use filetest "access"' from compiletime to runtime.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19392

21 years agoUpgrade to Unicode 4.0.0. (Well, upgrade at least
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 05:19:23 +0000 (05:19 +0000)]
Upgrade to Unicode 4.0.0.  (Well, upgrade at least
the Unicode character database to 4.0.0.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19391

21 years agoTru64: PerlIO_tell() was returning about one _megabyte_ for
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 3 May 2003 04:52:09 +0000 (04:52 +0000)]
Tru64: PerlIO_tell() was returning about one _megabyte_ for
the fp offset, which was quite a big larger than the input file,
which meant that the SvGROW tried to grow the file to about
2**64-2**20, which made safesysrealloc() to understandably
croak (in argv.t).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19390

21 years agoRegen Configure (no changes but that's fine).
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 2 May 2003 19:18:35 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
Regen Configure (no changes but that's fine).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19387

21 years agoRe: maintperl on OpenUNIX 8
Andy Dougherty [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:24:38 +0000 (08:24 -0400)]
Re: maintperl on OpenUNIX 8
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0304281208490.25038@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19386

21 years agoOpenUNIX 8 support
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Fri, 2 May 2003 12:12:08 +0000 (14:12 +0200)]
OpenUNIX 8 support
Message-Id: <20030502121208.3d235027.rgarciasuarez@free.fr>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19385

21 years agosilence compiler warnings
Abe Timmerman [Fri, 2 May 2003 00:51:42 +0000 (02:51 +0200)]
silence compiler warnings
Message-Id: <200305020051.43166.abe@ztreet.demon.nl>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19384

21 years agoRe: Smoke [5.9.0] 19367 FAIL(F) MSWin32 5.0 Service Pack 3 (x86/1 cpu)
Abe Timmerman [Thu, 1 May 2003 18:34:35 +0000 (20:34 +0200)]
Re: Smoke [5.9.0] 19367 FAIL(F) MSWin32 5.0 Service Pack 3 (x86/1 cpu)
Message-Id: <200305011834.35685.abe@ztreet.demon.nl>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19383

21 years agoDeceptive POSIX exporting docs
Michael G. Schwern [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:19:32 +0000 (11:19 -0700)]
Deceptive POSIX exporting docs
Message-ID: <20030501011932.GM701@windhund.schwern.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19382

21 years agoForgot to check in the -d: file.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 2 May 2003 15:12:47 +0000 (15:12 +0000)]
Forgot to check in the -d: file.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19381

21 years agoSolaris: make -Duse64bitall'ed to have an archname of
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 2 May 2003 15:02:04 +0000 (15:02 +0000)]
Solaris: make -Duse64bitall'ed to have an archname of
sun4-solaris-64, from Alan Burlison.  (The default is to not
to suffix anything with -Duse64bitall if longs are 64 bit.
This may lead into confusion and much sorrow if 32-bit binaries
and 64-bit binaries are installed under the same directories.
Why is "-64" or something like that the default?  Well, there
are platforms where 64 bits really is the default default.
There adding a "-64" would be kind of odd.  Better to let
each 64-bit capable platform to choose their archnames.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19380

21 years agoThe [perl #21890] (Devel::Coverage breakage) has been fixed
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 2 May 2003 08:41:40 +0000 (08:41 +0000)]
The [perl #21890] (Devel::Coverage breakage) has been fixed
by change #18589 (it was broken by change #9754); add test case.
p4raw-link: @18589 on //depot/perl: 5df8de69806210bf48dc2e451e3db37c6f274c6e
p4raw-link: @9754 on //depot/perl: 9d43a7557743d779c74d69ffc6df7fc17711f3ec

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19378

21 years agogreat_circle_direction() was broken,
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 2 May 2003 05:31:52 +0000 (05:31 +0000)]
great_circle_direction() was broken,
reported by Alexander Becher.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19376

21 years agoOS X: could not -Doptimize=-g.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 18:18:06 +0000 (18:18 +0000)]
OS X: could not -Doptimize=-g.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19375

21 years agoOS X test tweak.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 12:33:44 +0000 (12:33 +0000)]
OS X test tweak.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19374

21 years agoRE: perl@19333
Robin Barker [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:30:23 +0000 (18:30 +0100)]
RE: perl@19333
Message-ID: <533D273D4014D411AB1D00062938C4D9040464F7@hotel.npl.co.uk>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19373

21 years agominiperl cannot handle layers.t.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 09:52:52 +0000 (09:52 +0000)]
miniperl cannot handle layers.t.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19372

21 years agoThe solution in change #19363 was too unportable.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 08:26:06 +0000 (08:26 +0000)]
The solution in change #19363 was too unportable.
p4raw-link: @19363 on //depot/perl: d67aa87a1383860a50a1cda017e175d17b66c122

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19371

21 years agoperlreftut updates from mjd.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 07:48:06 +0000 (07:48 +0000)]
perlreftut updates from mjd.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19369

21 years agoz/OS: More threaded build tweaks from Brian De Pradine--
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 1 May 2003 07:45:06 +0000 (07:45 +0000)]
z/OS: More threaded build tweaks from Brian De Pradine--
apparently now it works!

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19368

21 years agobuglet: sub a(;&) { } doesn't work
Adrian M. Enache [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:41:07 +0000 (04:41 +0300)]
buglet: sub a(;&) { } doesn't work
Message-ID: <20030418224107.GA2751@ratsnest.hole>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19367

21 years agoIf it's S_, it should be STATIC.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:55:12 +0000 (08:55 +0000)]
If it's S_, it should be STATIC.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19366

21 years ago[perl #7592] Clarify what qw() does in scalar context
Casey West [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:30:03 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
[perl #7592] Clarify what qw() does in scalar context
Message-Id: <20030428140005.GC62281@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19365

21 years ago[patch #7514] Bug in perlop regex explination
Casey West [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:20:43 +0000 (16:20 +0000)]
[patch #7514] Bug in perlop regex explination
Message-Id: <20030428172206.GK62281@geeknest.com>

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21 years agoFix bug 2681, change the test not to use the shell and use 3+arg
Artur Bergman [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:32:35 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
Fix bug 2681, change the test not to use the shell and use 3+arg
open.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19363

21 years agoFeel-good cleanup.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:43:23 +0000 (08:43 +0000)]
Feel-good cleanup.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19359

21 years agoSysV msg queues can be something hanging (witnessed in IRIX),
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:27:15 +0000 (08:27 +0000)]
SysV msg queues can be something hanging (witnessed in IRIX),
so let's use IPC_NOWAIT.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19358

21 years agoDetecting errors of reentrant APIs: getgrgid_r and the like
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:32:47 +0000 (06:32 +0000)]
Detecting errors of reentrant APIs: getgrgid_r and the like
when returning an int can either return the error in the return
value or in the errno.  We need a new per-interp variable to store
the return value instead of clobbering the errno with it.  The new
variable, PL_reentrant_retint, is only used within the reentrancy
framework, and immediately after it's set, so there should not be
similar visibility issues as for the errno.  Spotted by Edward Moy.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19357

21 years agoNewer glibc's nice(2) return the new nice value, instead of 0 or -1.
Adrian M. Enache [Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:48:20 +0000 (01:48 +0300)]
Newer glibc's nice(2) return the new nice value, instead of 0 or -1.
Check errno to see if the call to nice(2) succeeded.
Subject: Re: [PATCH++] all about the recent standard conforming glibc's nic
Message-ID: <20030423194820.GA874@ratsnest.hole>

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21 years agoDocument a faint compilation noise.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:56:09 +0000 (19:56 +0000)]
Document a faint compilation noise.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19355

21 years ago$[ clarifications.
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:35:11 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
$[ clarifications.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19354

21 years agoutime() doc clarifications
Casey West [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:00:54 +0000 (04:00 -0400)]
utime() doc clarifications
based on :
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [perl #18589] Add NFS warning, clarify touch example
Message-ID: <20030425120054.GQ34510@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19353

21 years agoAdd a test case for [perl #15288] (already solved).
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:13:34 +0000 (08:13 +0000)]
Add a test case for [perl #15288] (already solved).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19351

21 years agoAdd Dave Mitchell's test case for fields.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:38:17 +0000 (07:38 +0000)]
Add Dave Mitchell's test case for fields.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19350

21 years agoVMS::Stdio test tweak
Craig A. Berry [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:53:07 +0000 (10:53 -0500)]
VMS::Stdio test tweak
From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
Message-ID: <3EAAF1B3.7020708@mac.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19349

21 years agoRe: [COMPLETE PATCH lib/UNIVERSAL.pm] RE: [perl #22018] UNIVERSAL documentatio n...
Casey West [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:18:42 +0000 (04:18 -0400)]
Re: [COMPLETE PATCH lib/UNIVERSAL.pm] RE: [perl #22018] UNIVERSAL documentatio n contradicts itself
Message-ID: <20030424121842.GW34510@geeknest.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19348

21 years agoDocument that restricted hashes are not atomic
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 06:03:48 +0000 (06:03 +0000)]
Document that restricted hashes are not atomic
(from Dave Mitchell).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19346

21 years agoRe: the revenge of the bride of the son of the night of the living pseudohashes
Dave Mitchell [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:45:28 +0000 (19:45 +0100)]
Re: the revenge of the bride of the son of the night of the living pseudohashes
Message-ID: <20030426174528.GA9588@fdgroup.com>

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21 years agoSome doc patches by Casey West :
Casey West [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:46:39 +0000 (06:46 -0400)]
Some doc patches by Casey West :

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #21260] adding error handling info to perlfunc/readline
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:46:39 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425144639.GY34510@geeknest.com>

Subject: Re: [perl #21785] [PATCH] clarify readdir in for conditional
From: Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:52:13 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425115213.GP34510@geeknest.com>

Subject: Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata
From: Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:27:22 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425012722.GN34510@geeknest.com>

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21 years agoDocument that splice() doesn't extend arrays
david nicol [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:05:02 +0000 (17:05 -0500)]
Document that splice() doesn't extend arrays
Subject: Re: slice autoextending ? still another revised doc patch; COW
Message-Id: <1051067101.1086.113.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com>

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21 years agoFix bug #15161 by increasing the refcount on the RE and making
Artur Bergman [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 21:43:32 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Fix bug #15161 by increasing the refcount on the RE and making
sure to restore it correctly. Deals with both s//e and s///g.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19342

21 years agoIntegrate:
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:36:03 +0000 (04:36 +0000)]
Integrate:
[ 19340]
Caught by Mark Lutz in UNICOS: A declaration cannot appear
after an executable statement in a block.
p4raw-link: @19340 on //depot/maint-5.8/perl: 3006777dda4086b50e9a4bf2cf86b9fcf7566894

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19341
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.8/perl@19337 'merge in'
pp_pack.c (@19011..)

21 years agoNow the -Dnoextensions and -Dnoextensions have the
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:19:36 +0000 (20:19 +0000)]
Now the -Dnoextensions and -Dnoextensions have the
chance of actually doing something.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19337

21 years agoConfigure's extension sanity check is too strict
Andy Dougherty [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:23:45 +0000 (12:23 -0400)]
Configure's extension sanity check is too strict
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0304251621250.24848@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19334

21 years agoanother spin on the enc_module.t merry-go-round
Craig A. Berry [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:09:48 +0000 (15:09 -0500)]
another spin on the enc_module.t merry-go-round
From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
Message-ID: <3EA88ADC.3000300@mac.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19330

21 years agoUpgrade to Time::HiRes 1.46.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:06:49 +0000 (07:06 +0000)]
Upgrade to Time::HiRes 1.46.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19329

21 years agotypo in Time::HiRes docs
Mark-Jason Dominus [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:13:44 +0000 (15:13 +0000)]
typo in Time::HiRes docs
Message-ID: <20030419151344.28237.qmail@plover.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19328

21 years agoClarify(?) the perlio default layers table.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:45:05 +0000 (04:45 +0000)]
Clarify(?) the perlio default layers table.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19327

21 years agoUpgrade to Test::Harness 2.28.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:22:49 +0000 (04:22 +0000)]
Upgrade to Test::Harness 2.28.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19326

21 years agoUpgrade to Encode 1.93.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:06:29 +0000 (19:06 +0000)]
Upgrade to Encode 1.93.

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