[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_09 to perl5.003_10]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Allow &{sub {...}} without warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod

Subject: Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5fa5e7dfc2abaaadd377c97cd1ebe78ea844da88)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h

Subject: Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Better support for UVs
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h

Subject: Minor locale cleanups
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c

    Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
    'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.

Subject: Always taint result of sprintf() on float
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c

Subject: Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c

Subject: Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c pp_sys.c

Subject: Namespace cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h

Subject: Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

 PORTABILITY

Subject: Reliable signal patch
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 679728958e74b0ccd6d61567d84851f1ef994e1f)

Subject: Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: 3_09: minor patches for OS/2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h

    Subject: 3_09: minor patches
    
    This patches mostly enable commpilation under OS/2, and fix malloc.c.
    
    Enjoy,
    
    p5p-msgid: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

Subject: Re: 5.003_09 and QNX
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit c5117498be098729dc2af28089bd130c88c8d42b)

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doop.c b/doop.c
index ddcaf36a19..dd162de1a1 100644
--- a/doop.c
+++ b/doop.c
@@ -274,10 +274,14 @@ register SV **sarg;
 		(void)sprintf(xs,f,SvNV(arg));
 		xlen = strlen(xs);
 #ifdef LC_NUMERIC
-		/* User-defined locales may include arbitrary characters */
-		if (! numeric_standard)
+		/*
+		 * User-defined locales may include arbitrary characters.
+		 * And, unfortunately, some system may alloc the "C" locale
+		 * to be overridden by a malicious user.
+		 */
+		if (op->op_type == OP_SPRINTF)
 		    SvTAINTED_on(sv);
-#endif
+#endif /* LC_NUMERIC */
 		break;
 	    case 's':
 		ch = *(++t);
@@ -539,12 +543,21 @@ SV *right;
     char *lsave = lc;
     char *rsave = rc;
 
-    dc = SvPV_force(sv,na);
     len = leftlen < rightlen ? leftlen : rightlen;
     lensave = len;
-    if (SvCUR(sv) < len) {
-	dc = SvGROW(sv,len + 1);
-	(void)memzero(dc + SvCUR(sv), len - SvCUR(sv) + 1);
+    if (SvOK(sv)) {
+	dc = SvPV_force(sv, na);
+	if (SvCUR(sv) < len) {
+	    dc = SvGROW(sv, len + 1);
+	    (void)memzero(dc + SvCUR(sv), len - SvCUR(sv) + 1);
+	}
+    }
+    else {
+	I32 needlen = ((optype == OP_BIT_AND)
+			? len : (leftlen > rightlen ? leftlen : rightlen));
+	Newz(801, dc, needlen + 1, char);
+	(void)sv_usepvn(sv, dc, needlen);
+	dc = SvPVX(sv);		/* sv_usepvn() calls Renew() */
     }
     SvCUR_set(sv, len);
     (void)SvPOK_only(sv);