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authorPerl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000
committerTim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000
commitfb73857aa0bfa8ed43d4d2f972c564c70a57e0c4 (patch)
tree97d2a45b0611b7b171257c2bc54d6532de48ff7f /Changes
parent464ed3b648d262825ad1bfc5a2e55de2507fd651 (diff)
parent62b753c6ae4ab9bf22fbb6ec7ceac820bcef8fe4 (diff)
downloadperl-fb73857aa0bfa8ed43d4d2f972c564c70a57e0c4.tar.gz
[inseparable changes from patch to perl 5.004_04]perl-5.004_04
[editor's note: this one imported like a charm!] TESTS - Subject: Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de> Files: t/pragma/locale.t Subject: Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1 From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> Files: t/op/taint.t t/op/taint.t prints out invalid ok messages for tests it skips. Rather than printing "ok 136" it prints "136 ok". p5p-msgid: 3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us UTILITIES - Subject: Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0 From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Msg-ID: 199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu (applied based on p5p patch as commit 0b166b6635cf199f072db516b2a523ee659394d5) Subject: h2ph broken in 5.004_02 From: David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu> Files: utils/h2ph.PL Msg-ID: 199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu (applied based on p5p patch as commit 4a8e146e38ec2045f1f817a7cb578e1b1f80f39f) Subject: add key_t caddr_t to h2ph From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com> Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL Msg-ID: 199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com (applied based on p5p patch as commit 0806a92ffc3a74ca70aa81051cdf2a306cd0a8af) Subject: perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL' From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Subject: perldoc finds wrong pod2man (from perldoc source) # We must look both in @INC for library modules and in PATH # for executables, like h2xs or perldoc itself. Unfortunately, searching PATH for installed perl executables like pod2man is INCORRECT. perldoc should start by searching the directory it was executed from, which might not be in the PATH at all. Credited: Joseph "Moof-in'" Hall <joseph@cscaper.com> p5p-msgid: 199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com Subject: 5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places From: Andreas J. Koenig <koenig@anna.mind.de> Files: utils/perlbug.PL Msg-ID: sfcg1qy38as.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de (applied based on p5p patch as commit 41f926b844140b7f7eaa9302113e45df3a9f9ff4) Subject: add better local patch info to perlbug From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Files: utils/perlbug.PL Subject: perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found From: Anthony David <adavid@netinfo.com.au> Files: utils/perldoc.PL private-msgid: 3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au Subject: perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Subject: perldoc weirdness perldoc mail::imap yields: {joseph}:79% perldoc mail::foo can't open /usr/ucb/mail: Permission denied at ./pod2man line 362. Credited: Joseph "Moof-in'" Hall <joseph@cscaper.com> p5p-msgid: 199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com Subject: perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Subject: perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster From: "Joseph N. Hall" <joseph@5sigma.com> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Msg-ID: MailDrop1.2d7dPPC.971012211957@screechy.cscaper.com (applied based on p5p patch as commit 62b753c6ae4ab9bf22fbb6ec7ceac820bcef8fe4)
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@@ -42,9 +42,836 @@ current addresses (as of March 1997):
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
- Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_04 Maintenance release 4 for 5.004
+----------------
+
+"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
+ 2. From discord, find harmony.
+ 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
+ -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work
+
+
+ HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
+
+ Fixed gaps in tainting (readdir, readlink, gecos, bit vector ops).
+ Fixed memory leak in splice(@_).
+ Fixed debugger core dumps.
+ IO::Socket now sets autoflush by default.
+ Several perldoc bugs fixed, now faster and more helpful.
+ Fixed Win32 handle leak.
+ Many other improvements to Win32 support.
+ Many many other bug fixes and enhancements.
+
+
+ ------ BUILD PROCESS ------
+
+ Title: "ExtUtils::Liblist prints diagnostics to STDOUT (vs. STDERR)"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, jesse@ginger
+ (Jesse Glick)
+ Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970829132217.28552A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Tony Sanders
+ <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "INSTALL version 1.26"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828143314.27416B-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970908143853.13750C-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Makefile.SH makedepend.SH x2p/Makefile.SH ext/util/make_ext
+
+ Title: "update to installperl for perl5.004_02 to skip CVS dir"
+ From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272307.RAA13451@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "makedepend loop on HP-UX 10.20"
+ Msg-ID: <1997Sep20.183731.2297443@cor.newman>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Tiny Grammaro in INSTALL"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcwwkb2pc8.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Hugo van der
+ Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970924112654.5054D-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.28"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971010131207.23751A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710132039.XAA21459@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: makedepend.SH
+
+ ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------
+
+ Title: "Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph"
+ From: Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya
+ Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>,
+ <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>,
+ <m0x4ZGj-000EZYC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708291649.MAA23276@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and
+ perl5"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <m0x4u2o-000EZkC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t
+
+ Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hallvard B Furuseth
+ <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)"
+ From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@fkfuga.pc.helsinki.fi>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <m0x3iQE-000CBrC@lukka.student.harvard.edu>
+ Files: proto.h av.c global.sym pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix line number of warnings in while() conditional", "misleading
+ uninit value warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Bacon
+ <gbacon@crp-201.adtran.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708271607.LAA01403@crp-201.adtran.com>
+ Files: proto.h op.c perly.c perly.y
+
+ Title: "-t and POSIX::isatty on IO::Handle objects", "Fix C<-t $handle>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Ward
+ <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199708241529.QAA02457@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t
+
+ Title: "regexec.c regcppartblow declaration missing an arg"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709131651.TAA13471@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "clean up old style package' usage in op.c"
+ From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709151813.NAA14433@psisa.psa.pencom.com>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "beautifying usage() code in perl.c"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <"John L. Allen"<allen@gateway.grumman.com>>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905091314.5991C-100000@gateway>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709170823.EAA21359@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c lib/perl5db.pl mg.c perl.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "downgrade "my $foo masks earlier" from mandatory to "-w""
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter
+ <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709091832.NAA14763@psisa.psa.pencom.com>,
+ <199709102019.QAA09591@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod op.c
+
+ Title: "fix overridden glob() problems"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709171645.MAA13988@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perlsub.pod lib/File/DosGlob.pm op.c t/lib/dosglob.t
+ toke.c
+
+ Title: "Reverse previous "Fix C<qq #hi#>" patch"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Kenneth Albanowski
+ <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Tom Christiansen
+ <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>,
+ <Pine.LNX.3.93.970817200236.170F-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199708141017.MAA10225@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c util.c x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and
+ perl5"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant
+ <alias@mcs.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <m0x4AUk-000EUJC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>
+ Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t
+
+ Title: "unpack now allows commas but -w warns", "unpack() difference
+ 5.003->5.004"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
+ Jim Esten <jesten@wdynamic.com>, Jim Esten
+ <jesten@wepco.com>, timbo (Tim Bunce)
+ Msg-ID: <199709031632.LAA29584@wepco.com>,
+ <199709090257.WAA32670@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <199709090917.MAA05602@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <199709091000.LAA24094@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <341077FE.132F@wdynamic.com>,
+ <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905171243.14630A-100000@gateway>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
+
+ Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <HBF.970921p5f6@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod hv.c op.c sv.c x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "A couple of 4_04t1 problems"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9709210959.AA28772@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm perl.c
+
+ Title: "Minor changes to ease port to MVS"
+ From: Len Johnson <lenjay@ibm.net>, SMTP%"BAHUFF@us.oracle.com" ,
+ SMTP%"pfuntner@vnet.ibm.com" , pvhp@forte.com (Peter
+ Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <199709162058.NAA00952@mailsun2.us.oracle.com>
+ Files: unixish.h miniperlmain.c
+
+ Title: "Truer version string and more robust perlbug"
+ From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709201514.QAA21187@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <1997Sep22.090701.2297448@cor.newman>
+ Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix locale bug for constant (readonly) strings"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Enable truly global glob()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for $0 truncation"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Larry's proto fix"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709290004.UAA07559@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs with magical arrays and hashes (@ISA)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232148.RAA29967@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.h proto.h av.c global.sym gv.c mg.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c
+ t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Perl_debug_log stream used for all DEBUG_*(...) macro uses"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: perl.c taint.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232236.SAA04463@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod mg.c os2/Changes
+
+ Title: "option "!#... -- ..." in perl 5.004.03 seems not to work"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Urs Thuermann
+ <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>,
+ <Pine.SOL.3.91.970930105158.10789A-100000@gateway>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer"
+ From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>,
+ aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
+ Msg-ID: <199710042107.AAA28561@alpha.hut.fi>,
+ <19971007104652-cameron-1-10391@sid.research.canon.com.au>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "make Odd number of elements in hash list warning non-mandatory"
+ From: Jason Varsoke {81530} <jjv@caesun10.msd.ray.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710021651.MAA15690@caesun7.msd.ray.com>
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix defined() bug in m4t3 affecting LWP"
+ From: chip@atlantic.net@ig.co.uk ()
+ Msg-ID: <199710101822.OAA14249@cyprus.atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Include $archname in perl -v output"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC"
+ From: Kenneth Stephen <y2kmvs@us.ibm.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>,
+ pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <199710130922.KAA07780@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <5040400007001448000002L082*@MHS>,
+ <9710132015.AA12457@forte.com>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ ------ DOCUMENTATION ------
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod: gotcha in short pattern/char ops"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970913064628.12359F-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Missing section for @_ in perlvar."
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199708142146.RAA13146@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Promised information about AvHASH in perguts is not delivered"
+ From: mjd@plover.com
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.doc - $_ aliasing in map, grep, foreach etc"
+ From: Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970826141343.13463h-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "document the return value of syscall"
+ From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <1997Sep7.160817.2297395@cor.newman>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "minor fix for perltrap.pod"
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709170500.BAA14805@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "xsubpp: document advanced dynamic typemap usage"
+ From: "Rujith S. de Silva" <desilva@netbox.com>
+ Files: pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970921074004.21358G-100000@julie.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context."
+ From: Robin Houston <robin@oneworld.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C<qq#hi#> vs C<qq #hi#>."
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709220107.VAA27064@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify exec docs in perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example"
+ From: Joerg Porath <Joerg.Porath@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709240620.IAA30928@pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method" disgnostic"
+ From: rjray@uswest.com (Randy J. Ray)
+ Msg-ID: <199709231710.LAA08854@tremere.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Document split-with-limit on empty string perl4/perl5 change"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>, Hugo
+ van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <hiuvttdkv.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t
+
+ Title: "Clarify close() docs"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710081653.MAA20611@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag log & sqrt - refer to Math::Complex package"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710061910.WAA15266@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document //gc"
+ From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
+ Msg-ID: <199709232302.TAA27947@fnx.com>
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "repeating #! switches"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Robin Barker
+ <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709241736.NAA25855@rio.atlantic.net>,
+ <24778.9709241501@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: taint documentation bug"
+ From: Ken Estes <estes@ms.com>, Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971006121349.10551X-100000@usertest.teleport.com>
+ Files: pod/perlsec.pod
+
+ ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------
+
+ Title: "FileHandle.pm fails if Exporter has not been loaded previously"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <3445e05b.17874041@smtp2.ibm.net>
+ Files: lib/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Prefer startperl path over perlpath in MakeMaker"
+ From: Andreas Klussmann <andreas@infosys.heitec.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709162017.WAA05043@troubadix.infosys.heitec.net>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Sys::Hostname fails under Solaris 2.5 when setuid"
+ From: Patrick Hayes <Patrick.Hayes.CAP_SESA@renault.fr>
+ Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+
+ Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element"
+ From: Hironori Ikura <hikura@tcc.co.jp>, Hironori Ikura
+ <hikura@trans-nt.com>, Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com>
+ Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>,
+ <m0x4TzI-0003F1C@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11"
+ From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans)
+ Msg-ID: <m0xBcdR-000RArC@plume.nl.compuware.com>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Andy Dougherty
+ <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Gisle Aas
+ <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <E0x9WpH-0003HT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
+ <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915115856.23236F-100000@newton.phys>,
+ <hvi07zvo9.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <upf@de.uu.net>
+ Msg-ID: <p5iuw1cris.fsf@knowway.de.uu.net>
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9708272110.AA26904@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Patches for lib/Math/Complex.pm and t/lib/complex.t"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199709102009.WAA27428@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Win32: Install.pm not correctly comparing binary files."
+ From: Jeff Urlwin <jurlwin@access.digex.net>
+ Msg-ID: <01BCBFAA.E325C4A0.jurlwin@access.digex.net>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks"
+ From: Greg Ward <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Msg-ID: <199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm
+
+ Title: "fix subroutines called in a void context in perl5db.pl"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0x6Gsa-0004VR-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs"
+ From: John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm"
+ From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970920154720.3683A@gateway>
+ Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm
+
+ Title: "further complex number patches"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199709221009.FAA21216@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>,
+ <199709221216.PAA15130@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Trap Time::Local infinite loop"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032226.SAA15354@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "ExtUtil::Install sub my_cmp needs to binmode its files"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter
+ <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710010617.BAA02037@psisa.psa.pencom.com>,
+ <199710011819.OAA03288@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Enable make test "TEST_FILES=t/*.t.were_failing""
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix for autouse.pm"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710071734.NAA19462@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex fixes - fixes problems on m68-linux"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199709301422.HAA24368@koah.research.nokia.com>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ Title: "Updated CPAN.pm for 5.004_04"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcpvpv8teo.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709232331.TAA04546@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix atan2 & restrict $t to (-pi,pi] instead of to [-pi,pi]"
+ From: Daniel S. Lewart, Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199710010939.CAA00964@koah.research.nokia.com>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ Title: "Cwd::fastcwd needs changes to work with tainting"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Ulrich Pfeifer
+ <pfeifer@wait.de>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <yfmwwk6y0bc.ulp@gretchen.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Title: "use autouse: requires prototype now"
+ From: user@agate.berkeley.edu
+ Msg-ID: <9709220450.AA0380@tuzik.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
+ Files: lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: ""use base qw(Foo Bar);" to set @ISA at compile time"
+ From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>, Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Graham Barr
+ <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>,
+ jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois), larry@wall.org (Larry
+ Wall)
+ Msg-ID: <199710022151.WAA21250@toad.ig.co.uk>,
+ <199710031613.JAA11286@wall.org>,
+ <199710040829.KAA16739@furu.g.aas.no>,
+ <3434E4C6.AE24135E@ti.com>, <343C2278.7DC1ADC6@pobox.com>,
+ <343ec306.50394803@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
+ Files: lib/base.pm
+
+ Title: "Further Math/Complex.pm enhancements"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ ------ OTHER CHANGES ------
+
+ Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710030001.UAA14241@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: ../pod/perlfunc.pod ../pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "libperl.sl on HP-UX 10.20"
+ From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709250003.BAA18085@crypt.compulink.co.uk>,
+ <873emkbpit.fsf@perv.daft.com>
+ Files:
+
+ Title: "myconfig / perl -V: remove randbits and add prototype"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Files: myconfig
+
+ Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710140835.EAA26825@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el
+
+ Title: "Enhance perly.fixer to help porters."
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: perly.fixer
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------
+
+ Title: "Fix win32/Makefile for perl95"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+
+ Title: "Win32 archnames"
+ From: Bill Middleton <wmiddlet@Adobe.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+ <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>, Tim
+ Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <341719E4.4923@forte.com>,
+ <Pine.GSO.3.95.970905123145.12361B-100000@ducks>
+ Files: win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc
+
+ Title: "pl2bat.bat -> pl2bat.pl change in win32/pod.mak"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <3411ee6f.9143607@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
+ Files: win32/pod.mak
+
+ Title: "Add test-notty target to Win32 Makefile"
+ From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois)
+ Msg-ID: <343f5106.12461608@smtp2.ibm.net>
+ Files: win32/Makefile
+
+ Title: "Bug in Win32::GetShortPathName"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32.c
+
+ Title: "Fix NT handles leak."
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710111319.JAA10918@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "fix socket init duality on win32"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710111523.LAA12407@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: win32/win32sck.c
+
+ ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------
+
+ Title: "Tweak to hints/machten.sh: stop t/lib/complex.t from failing"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03110700b06a30bdfc42@[194.51.248.80]>
+ Files: hints/machten.sh
+
+ Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations"
+ From: "Billinghurst, David" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au>
+ Msg-ID: <D54B1932FFB4CF11B5C80000F8018BD2907E31@CRCMAIL>
+ Files: hints/irix_6.sh
+
+ Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828142011.27416A-100000@newton.phys>
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970908112449.0087bc90@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Patches to updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970918100648.008b1c60@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: README.vms
+
+ Title: "Fix perl build on Digital UNIX after JDK installs libnet.so"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199709191826.OAA18040@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970912091524.008a3620@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: README.vms
+
+ Title: "Dynixptx hints"
+ From: bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck")
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.971002104651.12112G-200000@lancelot.aps.org>
+ Files: hints/dynixptx.sh
+
+ Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: os2/os2.c
+
+ Title: "OS2::REXX improvements"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709272214.SAA08638@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: os2/Changes os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
+
+ Title: "hints/qnx.sh update"
+ From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709261508.LAA07889@dolores.harvard.edu>
+ Files: hints/qnx.sh
+
+ Title: "New hints file for IBM OS/390 OpenEdition (MVS)"
+ From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
+ Msg-ID: <9709240106.AA26484@forte.com>
+ Files: hints/os390.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 Hints"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199710130631.CAA25426@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: hints/os2.sh
+
+ ------ TESTS ------
+
+ Title: "op/glob.t test failure under Win32 with CVS"
+ From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Aug26.091048pdt.35761-1@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Files: t/op/glob.t
+
+ Title: "tests fail if localhost/loopback address not defined"
+ From: David McLean <David McLean<davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>>, David McLean
+ <davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
+ Msg-ID: <34048947.2944@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
+ Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t
+
+ Title: "Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1"
+ From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us>
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Identify t/*/*.t test failing because of file permissions"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcraah0xvy.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden
+ <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Norton Allen
+ <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709261458.KAA28611@dolores.harvard.edu>
+ Files: t/op/runlevel.t
+
+ ------ UTILITIES ------
+
+ Title: "Missing 'require' in auto-generated .pm by h2xs"
+ From: davidk@tor.securecomputing.com (David Kerry)
+ Msg-ID: <97Aug27.131618edt.11650@janus.tor.securecomputing.com>
+ Files: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Title: "Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02"
+ From: David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>,
+ kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic)
+ Msg-ID: <199708201454.KAA05122@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>,
+ <199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu>
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "add key_t caddr_t to h2ph", "eg/sysvipc/ipcsem bug", "update
+ hints/bsdos.sh"
+ From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com>
+ Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL'"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places"
+ From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <sfcg1qy38as.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "add better local patch info to perlbug", "perlbug checks perl
+ build/run version changes"
+ From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found"
+ From: Anthony David <adavid@netinfo.com.au>
+ Msg-ID: <3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail"
+ From: "Joseph Moof-in' Hall" <joseph@cscaper.com>, Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster"
+ From: "Joseph N. Hall" <joseph@5sigma.com>
+ Msg-ID: <MailDrop1.2d7dPPC.971012211957@screechy.cscaper.com>
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
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