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authorLarry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>1990-03-13 23:33:04 +0000
committerLarry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>1990-03-13 23:33:04 +0000
commit63f2c1e106a2635d888c6b582f4c59b5c0ecc7ee (patch)
tree8f937b14482c666265f81797ebd4f122c8260cfb /lib/dumpvar.pl
parent79a0689e17f959bdb246dc37bbbbfeba4c2b3b56 (diff)
downloadperl-63f2c1e106a2635d888c6b582f4c59b5c0ecc7ee.tar.gz
perl 3.0 patch #15 (combined patch)
In patch 13, there was a fix to make the VAR=value construct in a command force interpretation by the shell. This was botched, causing an argv list to be occasionally allocated with too small a size. This problem is hidden on some machines because of BSD malloc's semantics. The lib/dumpvar.pl file was missing final 1; which made it difficult to tell if it loaded right. The lib/termcap.pl Tgetent subroutine didn't interpret ^x right due to a missing ord(). In the section of the man page that gives hints for C programmers, it falsely declared that you can't subscript array values. As of patch 13, this statement is "inoperative". The t/op.sleep test assumed that a sleep of 2 seconds would always return a value of 2 seconds slept. Depending on the load and the whimsey of the scheduler, it could actually sleep longer than 2 seconds upon occasion. It now allows sleeps of up to 10 seconds.
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@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ sub main'dumpvar {
}
}
}
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+1;