[inseparable changes from patch from perl-5.003_97d to perl-5.003_97e]perl-5.003_97e

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: New operator: sysseek()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c

Subject: Allow recursive substitution again
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: doio.c pp_sys.c

Subject: Win32 update (four patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Fix description of /\G/g
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod

Subject: Mention '...' operator in precedence table
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod

    private-msgid: 199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: New API function: perl_eval_pv()
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlguts.pod proto.h

    private-msgid: 199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org

Subject: Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index fdd4dde722..b1e11f414b 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ the loop, but not beyond it.
 Note that you still cannot use my() on global punctuation variables
 such as $_ and the like.
 
-=item unpack() and pack()
+=item pack() and unpack()
 
 A new format 'w' represents a BER compressed integer (as defined in
 ASN.1).  Its format is a sequence of one or more bytes, each of which
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ provides seven bits of the total value, with the most significant
 first.  Bit eight of each byte is set, except for the last byte, in
 which bit eight is clear.
 
+=item sysseek()
+
+This is a variant of seek() that works on the system file pointer.
+It is the only reliable way to seek before sysread() or syswrite().
+
 =item use VERSION
 
 If the first argument to C<use> is a number, it is treated as a version
@@ -657,10 +662,14 @@ with Perl 5.003, there are a few exceptions:
 
     Module   Required Version for Perl 5.004
     ------   -------------------------------
-    Filter   1.12
-    LWP      5.08
+    Filter   Filter-1.12
+    LWP      libwww-perl-5.08
     Tk       Tk400.202 (-w makes noise)
 
+Also, the majordomo mailing list program, version 1.94.1, doesn't work
+with Perl 5.004 (nor with perl 4), because it executes an invalid
+regular expression.  This bug is fixed in majordomo version 1.94.2.
+
 =head2 Installation directories
 
 The I<installperl> script now places the Perl source files for
@@ -676,9 +685,16 @@ shared libraries.
 Brand new modules, arranged by topic rather than strictly
 alphabetically:
 
-    CPAN                 interface to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
-    CPAN::FirstTime      create a CPAN configuration file
-    CPAN::Nox            run CPAN while avoiding compiled extensions
+    CGI.pm               Web server interface ("Common Gateway Interface")
+    CGI/Apache.pm        Support for Apache's Perl module
+    CGI/Carp.pm          Log server errors with helpful context
+    CGI/Fast.pm          Support for FastCGI (persistent server process)
+    CGI/Push.pm          Support for server push
+    CGI/Switch.pm        Simple interface for multiple server types
+
+    CPAN                 Interface to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
+    CPAN::FirstTime      Utility for creating CPAN configuration file
+    CPAN::Nox            Runs CPAN while avoiding compiled extensions
 
     IO.pm                Top-level interface to IO::* classes
     IO/File.pm           IO::File extension Perl module
@@ -887,6 +903,13 @@ C<perl_call_sv> is Perl's producing an "Undefined subroutine called"
 error on the I<second> call to a given method (since there is no cache
 on the first call).
 
+=item C<perl_eval_pv>
+
+A new function handy for eval'ing strings of Perl code inside C code. 
+This function returns the value from the eval statement, which can
+be used instead of fetching globals from the symbol table.  See
+L<perlguts>, L<perlembed> and L<perlcall> for details and examples.
+
 =item Extended API for manipulating hashes
 
 Internal handling of hash keys has changed.  The old hashtable API is
@@ -1156,12 +1179,6 @@ commas if you don't want them to appear in your data:
 
     qw! a b c !;
 
-=item Recursive substitution detected
-
-(F) The replacement string of a substitution caused the recursive
-execution of that very same substituion.  Perl cannot keep track of
-special variables (C<$1>, etc.) under such circumstances.
-
 =item Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}
 
 (W) You've used a hash slice (indicated by @) to select a single element of