[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_27 to perl5.003_28]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c

Subject: Optimize keys() and values() in void context
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: doop.c op.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: VMS patches post _27
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h

    private-msgid: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

Subject: Re: OS/2 patch for _27
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness t/op/magic.t
Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 833d3f255ed68b969f062cec63d33f853ed9237c)

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: INSTALL updates since _26
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: INSTALL
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit a8247d96fd6167a3b920e63aedee5592cd6e29a7)

Subject: Document "$$0" change
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod

Subject: Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod

Subject: Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Files: pod/perlvar.pod

Subject: Add pumpkin.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod

Subject: Don't say "associat*ve arr*y"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix a typo
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c

Subject: Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/t/op/closure.t b/t/op/closure.t
index 04fb7a303a..7af3abb291 100755
--- a/t/op/closure.t
+++ b/t/op/closure.t
@@ -408,22 +408,31 @@ END
 	  } else {
 	    # No fork().  Do it the hard way.
 	    my $cmdfile = "tcmd$$";  $cmdfile++ while -e $cmdfile;
-	    my $outfile = "tout$$";  $outfile++ while -e $outfile;
 	    my $errfile = "terr$$";  $errfile++ while -e $errfile;
+	    my @tmpfiles = ($cmdfile, $errfile);
 	    open CMD, ">$cmdfile"; print CMD $code; close CMD;
 	    my $cmd = ($^O eq 'VMS') ? "MCR $^X" : "./perl";
-	    $cmd .= " -w $cmdfile >$outfile 2>$errfile";
-	    system $cmd;
-	    $? = 0 if $^O eq 'VMS' and $? & 1;  # Keep Unix-minded code below happy
+	    $cmd .= " -w $cmdfile 2>$errfile";
+	    if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
+	      # Use pipe instead of system so we don't inherit STD* from
+	      # this process, and then foul our pipe back to parent by
+	      # redirecting output in the child.
+	      open PERL,"$cmd |" or die "Can't open pipe: $!\n";
+	      { local $/; $output = join '', <PERL> }
+	      close PERL;
+	    } else {
+	      my $outfile = "tout$$";  $outfile++ while -e $outfile;
+	      push @tmpfiles, $outfile;
+	      system "$cmd >$outfile";
+	      { local $/; open IN, $outfile; $output = <IN>; close IN }
+	    }
 	    if ($?) {
 	      printf "not ok: exited with error code %04X\n", $?;
-	      $debugging or do { 1 while unlink $cmdfile, $outfile, $errfile };
+	      $debugging or do { 1 while unlink @tmpfiles };
 	      exit;
 	    }
-	    { local $/;
-	      open IN, $outfile; $output = <IN>; close IN;
-	      open IN, $errfile; $errors = <IN>; close IN; }
-	    1 while unlink $cmdfile, $outfile, $errfile;
+	    { local $/; open IN, $errfile; $errors = <IN>; close IN }
+	    1 while unlink @tmpfiles;
 	  }
 	  print $output;
 	  print STDERR $errors;