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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-05-04 14:03:58 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-05-04 14:03:58 +0000
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parent443572f53eddefca4df989a086a52c32f1745d81 (diff)
downloadperl-43d4bbc899d37eb18389db025e03eda26e08e8f7.tar.gz
Introduce perl572delta, update Todo, add the missing
mention about signal safety since 5.7.1 (though this requires verification and more details.) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9989
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This document describes differences between the 5.7.0 release and the
5.7.1 release.
(To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0
-release, see L<perl570delta>).
+release, see L<perl570delta>.)
=head1 Security Vulnerability Closed
@@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ natively, ASCII or EBCDIC, unless GLOB_ALPHASORT is specified.)
=head1 Core Enhancements
-=over 4
-
-=item *
+=head1 AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
AUTOLOAD is now lvaluable, meaning that you can add the :lvalue attribute
to AUTOLOAD subroutines and you can assign to the AUTOLOAD return value.
+=head2 PerlIO is Now The Default
+
+=over 4
+
=item *
IO is now by default done via PerlIO rather than system's "stdio".
@@ -192,6 +194,11 @@ C<\s> doesn't.)
=back
+=head2 Signals Are Now Safe
+
+Perl used to be fragile in that signals arriving at inopportune moments
+could corrupt Perl's internal state.
+
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=head2 New Modules