Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 28 May 2000 14:25:15 +0000 (14:25 +0000)]
BSD/OS (bsdi) hints update by Timur I. Bakeyev and Todd C. Miller,
forwarded by Peter Seebach from the bsdi-users mailing list.
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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6141
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 10:01:48 +0000 (10:01 +0000)]
revise mktables.PL for bugs and newness in Unicode 3.0
(from James Bence <jbence@amgen.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6139
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:50:32 +0000 (08:50 +0000)]
add note about the handling of negative indices to tied arrays
(from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6138
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:46:10 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
fix bogus redeclaration warning for "our" variables in different
scopes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6137
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:31:20 +0000 (08:31 +0000)]
random pod typos (from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6136
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:17:50 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
enable Test::Harness to dynamically determine column width etc.
(from Rob Napier <rnapier@employees.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6135
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:13:39 +0000 (08:13 +0000)]
make Test::Harness use wait.h/WCOREDUMP if available
(from Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6134
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:08:05 +0000 (08:08 +0000)]
elide bogus test in change#6132
p4raw-link: @6132 on //depot/perl:
114bafba71b4fe6a08258e1f6dfc504b5d9fd70c
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6133
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:03:14 +0000 (08:03 +0000)]
warnings::enabled() doesn't fall back to looking at $^W if
caller isn't using lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6132
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:57:47 +0000 (07:57 +0000)]
avoid warnings in POSIX.pm (from Barrie Slaymaker)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6131
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:29:12 +0000 (07:29 +0000)]
fix places that mean C<"word" character> but say C<alphanumeric
character>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6130
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:18:41 +0000 (07:18 +0000)]
VMS test harness tweak (from Jesper Naur <jesper.naur@post.tele.dk>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6129
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:12:55 +0000 (07:12 +0000)]
new perlxstut example for passing/returning refs to arrays
(from David Lowe <dlowe@pootpoot.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6128
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:02:50 +0000 (07:02 +0000)]
call_method(...,G_EVAL) can longjmp() out if the method probing
failed (from Gisle Aas)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6127
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 06:39:53 +0000 (06:39 +0000)]
change#2879 broke rvalue autovivification of magicals such as ${$num}
(reworked variant of patch suggested by Simon Cozens)
p4raw-link: @2879 on //depot/perl:
35cd451c5a1303394968903750cc3b3a1a6bc892
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6126
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:14:55 +0000 (05:14 +0000)]
enable propagating exception objects via Perl_croak() in XS code
(from Gisle Aas)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6125
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:07:28 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
integrate vmsperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6124
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:03:53 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
clarify gotcha with #line directives (from Rocco Caputo
<troc@netrus.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6123
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 04:58:29 +0000 (04:58 +0000)]
downgrade fatal error on C<"foo@nosucharray.com"> to optional warning
(from Mark-Jason Dominus)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6122
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:46:54 +0000 (04:46 +0000)]
Allow eliminate_macros() and fixpath() to handle space-delimited
lists (based on fixes by Craig Berry)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6121
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:25:38 +0000 (04:25 +0000)]
Add missing escape (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6120
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:21:25 +0000 (04:21 +0000)]
Quiet error messages in vmsish.t (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6119
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:17:57 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
Regularize distinction between RMS$_DNF and RMS$_DIR (Craig Berry)
Flatten case labels in switch statements uniformly (Charles Bailey)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6118
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:58:09 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
Treat sockets as special in sys(read|write) (Charles Lane et al.)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6117
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:11:15 +0000 (03:11 +0000)]
Miscellaneous cosmetic fixes (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6116
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:10:36 +0000 (03:10 +0000)]
Add bounds checking for several strings (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6115
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 02:25:34 +0000 (02:25 +0000)]
Urk -- undo previous removal of vmsish 'exit' change
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6114
Charles Bailey [Wed, 24 May 2000 02:24:40 +0000 (02:24 +0000)]
Ugly workaround for version-specific RTL error
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6113
Charles Bailey [Wed, 24 May 2000 02:19:55 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Check for existence of file before trying to delete
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6112
Charles Bailey [Tue, 23 May 2000 23:35:13 +0000 (23:35 +0000)]
Resync with mainline prior to post-5.6.0 updates
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6111
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 17 May 2000 02:24:56 +0000 (02:24 +0000)]
reenable fake signal handling on Windows, bugs and all
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6108
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 11 May 2000 03:39:07 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
PL_sys_intern was being initialized too late on windows
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6104
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 8 May 2000 14:22:22 +0000 (14:22 +0000)]
cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <efifer@sanwaint.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6094
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 8 May 2000 12:52:28 +0000 (12:52 +0000)]
fork() failure to create pseudo process sets errno=EAGAIN and returns
undef on windows (from Clinton Pierce <clintp@geeksalad.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6093
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 19:47:07 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
concat doesn't preserve utf8-ness, and doesn't invalidate
[NI]OK; added tests for both
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6090
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 18:18:38 +0000 (18:18 +0000)]
buildtoc tweak to fix newline lossage
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6089
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 16:05:16 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
reverse() and quotemeta() weren't preserving utf8-ness; add tests
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6087
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 05:52:02 +0000 (05:52 +0000)]
repeat operator (x) doesn't preserve utf8-ness
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6085
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 05:39:55 +0000 (05:39 +0000)]
substr() does not preserve utf8-ness (from Stefan Eissing
<Eissing@medicaldataservice.de>); added tests
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6084
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 05:24:46 +0000 (05:24 +0000)]
note about undocumented caller() return value (from M.J.T. Guy);
yet another peek.t tweak
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6083
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 05:08:40 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
peek.t non-portable to ithreads
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6082
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 04:17:04 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
better default perlbug categories for ok reports (from Richard Foley)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6081
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 04:08:07 +0000 (04:08 +0000)]
add File::Temp v0.08 from CPAN, with small tweaks to testsuite
(from Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6080
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 04:01:38 +0000 (04:01 +0000)]
remove outdated kludge in Carp (NULLs are permitted in diagnostics now)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6079
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 01:24:19 +0000 (01:24 +0000)]
workaround for CRT bug in chdir() (from Charles Lane, via
Peter Prymmer)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6078
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 01:22:23 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
avoid warnings in diagnostics.pm; pod tweaks (from Peter Prymmer
and Tom Phoenix)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6077
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 6 May 2000 17:36:29 +0000 (17:36 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6076
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 5 May 2000 18:56:10 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
Make the test more portable.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6075
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 5 May 2000 18:49:20 +0000 (18:49 +0000)]
Introduce t/lib/peek.t.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6074
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 5 May 2000 14:30:45 +0000 (14:30 +0000)]
Complex tweaks.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6073
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 5 May 2000 12:27:13 +0000 (12:27 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6072
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 02:24:46 +0000 (02:24 +0000)]
misformatted perllocal.pod (from Tim Jenness
<t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6071
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 02:16:52 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
remove misleading comment (from M.J.T. Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6070
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 02:15:13 +0000 (02:15 +0000)]
File::Spec compatibility update (from Barrie Slaymaker
<barries@slaysys.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6069
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 02:01:50 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
note about values()
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6068
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 01:33:09 +0000 (01:33 +0000)]
replace direct call to sighandler() with (*PL_sighandlerp)()
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6067
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 5 May 2000 01:23:43 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
s/END/CHECK/
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6066
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 4 May 2000 17:30:22 +0000 (17:30 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6065
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 4 May 2000 17:26:14 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
change#5905 wasn't quite right--it's intent only applies when arguments
to sv_vcatpvfn() are SVs instead of C types; back out change#5907 as well
p4raw-link: @5907 on //depot/cfgperl:
7cfcdf208eb7eff0b6f8313f1a5b14880681119d
p4raw-link: @5905 on //depot/cfgperl:
686fa4bb8e88f0c9a36218cdbf3c49f4a7b93b2a
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6064
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 4 May 2000 16:52:29 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
tokeq() could read unallocated field in argument
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6063
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 4 May 2000 16:34:51 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
additional tests for utf8.t
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6062
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 4 May 2000 16:09:28 +0000 (16:09 +0000)]
change#5921 neglected to make eq honor "use bytes"
p4raw-link: @5921 on //depot/perl:
c5cc35007718d4b8a82486110aec2d59e69a4f79
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6061
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 4 May 2000 15:30:16 +0000 (15:30 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6060
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 4 May 2000 15:26:37 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
The logic of choosing strtol/strtoul/strtoll/strtoull was wrong
in natively 64-bit platforms where a long is a quad (no need
for long longs). Also added bias for IVs.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6059
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 4 May 2000 00:19:14 +0000 (00:19 +0000)]
printf(...) should be PerlIO_printf(PerlIO_stdout(), ...)
(spotted by Donald Kinzer <dkinzer@premia.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6058
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 3 May 2000 18:34:01 +0000 (18:34 +0000)]
fix broken parsing of /\x{ab}/
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6057
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 3 May 2000 17:57:16 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
The search of infinity continues, this time simplified.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6056
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 3 May 2000 17:45:30 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Detypo.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6055
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 22:28:27 +0000 (22:28 +0000)]
Be more forgiving in POSIX about HUGE_VALL.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6054
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 22:25:05 +0000 (22:25 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6053
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 22:24:31 +0000 (22:24 +0000)]
Unicos hint tweak.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6052
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 22:21:26 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Complex tweakery.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6051
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 19:26:22 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
Use setxxent()/endxxent().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6050
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 19:06:02 +0000 (19:06 +0000)]
Test both the scalar and list contexts.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6049
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 18:29:10 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
add note about how $( doesn't interpolate in REs (from
Philip Newton <newton@ficus.frogspace.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6048
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 17:41:24 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
Call getspnam() only iff needed.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6047
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 17:07:25 +0000 (17:07 +0000)]
libscheck has insufficient checks for n32 libs (from
Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6046
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 13:57:17 +0000 (13:57 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6045
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 06:48:19 +0000 (06:48 +0000)]
change#3798 broke the meaning of "\0_7_7", tr/\0_// etc.; fix it
such that underscores are only ignored in literal numbers,
"\x{...}", and hex/oct argument
p4raw-link: @3798 on //depot/cfgperl:
252aa0820e6bce274b33bd342cfc65e18a59a165
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6044
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 02:22:29 +0000 (02:22 +0000)]
perlretut revisions (from Mark Kvale <kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6043
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 02:17:51 +0000 (02:17 +0000)]
remove outdated perltrap entry (from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6042
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 01:53:51 +0000 (01:53 +0000)]
cpio 2.4.2 on Linux creates directories in 0700 mode, adjust makerel
to compensate
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6041
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 2 May 2000 01:51:57 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
missing files in MANIFEST
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6040
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 00:36:46 +0000 (00:36 +0000)]
Infinite problems.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6039
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 2 May 2000 00:06:38 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
pwent/spent #ifdef imbalance.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6038
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 1 May 2000 22:50:11 +0000 (22:50 +0000)]
Use HUGE_VALL if applicable.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6037
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 1 May 2000 22:20:53 +0000 (22:20 +0000)]
Correct Freudian slip.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6036
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 1 May 2000 21:07:38 +0000 (21:07 +0000)]
Continue on the pwent/spent case.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6035
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 1 May 2000 17:45:14 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy; unfortunately Sarathy's whitespace
adjustments in 6032 conflicted badly with this, will have
to revisit them later.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6034
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 1 May 2000 17:40:49 +0000 (17:40 +0000)]
Rewrite the pwent/spent logic to be a little bit more clearer.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6033
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 15:56:32 +0000 (15:56 +0000)]
whitespace adjustments
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6032
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 15:19:41 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
small nits in diagnostics.pm (from Robin Barker)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6031
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 08:39:18 +0000 (08:39 +0000)]
introduce @LAST_MATCH_START and @LAST_MATCH_END, English aliases
for @- and @+ (from Johan Vromans)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6030
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 08:16:10 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
add CGI.pm v2.66 (from Lincoln Stein)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6029
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 06:34:41 +0000 (06:34 +0000)]
Pod::Man generates groff-incompatible macro definition (from
Tom Christiansen)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6028
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 1 May 2000 06:31:36 +0000 (06:31 +0000)]
podlators-1.02 update (from Russ Allbery)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6027
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:24:23 +0000 (23:24 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6026
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:17:47 +0000 (18:17 +0000)]
Is{Alnum,Alpha,Word} don't match titlecase
TODO: IsSpace is defined recursively!
(both spotted by Larry)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6025
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:50:19 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
extend "Unrecognized escape" warning to \8, \9, and \_ as well
(from Hugo van der Sanden)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6024
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:14:43 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
debugger stomps on $. (from M.J.T. Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6023