Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:19:46 +0000 (17:19 +0000)]
update Changes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5829
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:47:14 +0000 (16:47 +0000)]
squelch known scalar leak due to compile failure
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5828
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:20:22 +0000 (09:20 +0000)]
mention how to look up perllocal.pod (from Michael G Schwern)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5827
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:49:27 +0000 (08:49 +0000)]
mention need to wait for children (from Russ Allbery)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5826
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:47:52 +0000 (08:47 +0000)]
Pod::Man should strip leading lib/ for module manpages (from
Russ Allbery)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5825
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:17:49 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
User::pwent fixups for additional fields (from Tom Christiansen);
fix bug in pw_has(); tolerate absense of pw{change,age,quota}
and pw{comment,class} (Debian 2.1 doesn't have either of these)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5824
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:41:46 +0000 (07:41 +0000)]
pod typo fixes (from Marcel Grunauer <marcel.grunauer@lovely.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5823
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:34:29 +0000 (07:34 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5822
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:14:38 +0000 (07:14 +0000)]
remove dead code
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5821
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:13:01 +0000 (07:13 +0000)]
fix typo
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5820
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:09:32 +0000 (07:09 +0000)]
produce better error message when \N{...} is used without
"use charnames ..."
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5819
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 06:30:11 +0000 (06:30 +0000)]
default warnLevel and dieLevel to 0 in debugger (from Tom
Christiansen); make dumpvar.pl safe against non-glob entries
in stashes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5818
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 06:18:24 +0000 (06:18 +0000)]
better notes on s///ee (from Simon Cozens <simon@cozens.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5817
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:55:52 +0000 (05:55 +0000)]
support for C<use vmsish 'hushed'>; move VMSISH_EXIT out of
op_private (from Charles Lane <lane@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5816
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:27:31 +0000 (05:27 +0000)]
fix sort optimizer to not hang inside loops
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5815
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:59:29 +0000 (03:59 +0000)]
fixes for alias handling in debugger (from Tom Christiansen)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5814
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:38:10 +0000 (03:38 +0000)]
warn about CHECK and INIT blocks encountered at run time
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5813
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:15:58 +0000 (03:15 +0000)]
Taint msgrcv() messages; general SysV IPC cleanup.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5812
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 01:48:47 +0000 (01:48 +0000)]
Taint shmread().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5811
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 19 Mar 2000 01:22:47 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
Taint also the passwd field of the getpw*().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5810
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:44:34 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5809
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:40:55 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
(Re-)introduce $uidsign and $gidsign.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5808
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:38:12 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
The #5805 requires a test change, too.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5807
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:10:29 +0000 (20:10 +0000)]
queued errors may not be displayed after the PL_error_count limit
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5806
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:56:12 +0000 (19:56 +0000)]
Taint the shell from the getpw*.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5805
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:37:01 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
Use the newSVuv().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5804
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:08:40 +0000 (19:08 +0000)]
Add newSVuv().
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5803
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:11:07 +0000 (17:11 +0000)]
Configure nits: rewording from Sarathy (aka #5796),
and installation directories patch from Robin Barker.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5802
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:41:31 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5801
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:16:32 +0000 (05:16 +0000)]
force i_ieeefp=undef on dos_djgpp (it reportedly causes failures
in system includes)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5800
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:12:00 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
Getopt::Long 2.23 update (from Johan Vromans)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5799
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:03:20 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
recognize single-line declarations in xsubpp; add switches to
disable newfangled features (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5798
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:21:43 +0000 (04:21 +0000)]
make "\N{...}" enable utf8-ness correctly
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5797
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:03:08 +0000 (04:03 +0000)]
avoid mentioning Perl version in Configure question
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5796
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 03:32:31 +0000 (03:32 +0000)]
better explanation of C<> tags (from Wolfgang Laun)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5795
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 03:26:57 +0000 (03:26 +0000)]
make return values from match in a list context, as well as $& et
al propagate utf8-ness (from Graham Barr)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5794
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:45:30 +0000 (01:45 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5793
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:08:25 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
hints fixups for PowerMAX (from Tom Horsley)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5792
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:53:21 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
make reftype() consistently croak on non-refs
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5791
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:41:36 +0000 (23:41 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5790
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:37:21 +0000 (22:37 +0000)]
fix coredump when upgrading PL_sv_yes in a second call to
perl_construct() (from Doug MacEachern)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5789
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:32:25 +0000 (22:32 +0000)]
make noTTY debugger option work again (from Paul Marquess)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5788
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:00:05 +0000 (17:00 +0000)]
make Config.pm report sane errors with older perls
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5787
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:48:20 +0000 (16:48 +0000)]
syntax errors in Thread::* (from Tom Christiansen)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5786
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:45:34 +0000 (16:45 +0000)]
tweak perldata section on v-strings
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5785
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:24:28 +0000 (16:24 +0000)]
missing file in change#5781
p4raw-link: @5781 on //depot/perl:
564d657a74dccde9ba1d290e8c73ec113622ee81
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5784
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:29 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
Add the NEXTSTEP strftime %j bug to Known Problems.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5783
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:29:46 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5782
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:19:17 +0000 (06:19 +0000)]
PodParser v1.13 update (from Brad Appleton)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5781
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:42:45 +0000 (05:42 +0000)]
propagate CvFLAGS() into clones
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5780
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:58:39 +0000 (04:58 +0000)]
documentation fixes from p5p
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5779
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:13:27 +0000 (04:13 +0000)]
make attributes::reftype(*FOO{IO}) return "IO" instead of "UNKNOWN"
(from Tom Christiansen)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5777
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:40:18 +0000 (03:40 +0000)]
More Todo.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5776
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:40:14 +0000 (03:40 +0000)]
s/:def/:DEFAULT/
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5775
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:39:07 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
export cv_undef() and cv_const_sv() (mod_perl uses them to
good advantage)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5774
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:12:34 +0000 (03:12 +0000)]
remove non-ANSI parts in comp/cpp.t
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5773
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:11:49 +0000 (03:11 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5772
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:10:34 +0000 (03:10 +0000)]
Make the test easier to use.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5771
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:04:33 +0000 (03:04 +0000)]
pod{man,text} updates from podlators-1.00 (from Russ Allbery)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5770
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:53:39 +0000 (02:53 +0000)]
integrate vmsperl contents into mainline (no actual changes, since
cfgperl already had them all)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5769
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:48:14 +0000 (02:48 +0000)]
fix signedness in test for syswrite() length argument
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5768
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:38:51 +0000 (02:38 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5767
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:29:24 +0000 (02:29 +0000)]
Add "Known Problems" section.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5766
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:31:19 +0000 (00:31 +0000)]
add missing bincompat5005 #defines
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5765
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:32:52 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
pp_send() type tuning continues.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5764
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 16 Mar 2000 04:09:37 +0000 (04:09 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5763
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 16 Mar 2000 04:06:36 +0000 (04:06 +0000)]
VMS patches from Dan Sugalski and Charles Bailey
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5762
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:18:41 +0000 (03:18 +0000)]
due to an oversight during PERL_OBJECT migration, hosts created
by pseudo-fork were never being deleted, leading to a sizeable
memory leak; std FDs in pseudo-children are now closed
automatically to avoid resource leaks; basic infinite looping
fork() test works without leaking again in non-PERL_OBJECT
build
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5761
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:50:13 +0000 (01:50 +0000)]
Fix pp_send() sizes (pass a Size_t, not an Off_t, and
return a SSize_t, not an Off_t); add a note about a slightly
similar situation in pp_truncate(); introduce $sizesize
for Configure; update EPOC, VOS, Win32, and VMS for the
sizesize; minor updates on the EPOC config file; reword
socklen_t message slightly; fix fpossize (though unused currently)
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5760
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:47:11 +0000 (23:47 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5759
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:46:17 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
Retract #5767; replace it with a tested patch
from Anton Berezin.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5758
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:36:53 +0000 (23:36 +0000)]
Configure nits: do not use /tmp to avoid potential security
problems (Andy Dougherty: this does not fix the rampant
use of /tmp by the various utilities like C compilers, though.
Just don't run Configure as root if you care about security.),
fix man3dir bug (both from Andy Dougherty); fix hints files
not to use /tmp; retract #4993 (the description of the *symbols
variables is okay, after all); regen Configure.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5757
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:20:06 +0000 (22:20 +0000)]
cater for FreeBSD 5.*
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5756
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:00:57 +0000 (22:00 +0000)]
Add missing Windows O_ constants.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5755
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:56:37 +0000 (19:56 +0000)]
add PL_thr_key to export list under useithreads
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5754
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:19:19 +0000 (04:19 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5753
Charles Bailey [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:45:28 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
Make DEBUGGING a configurable option
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@5752
Charles Bailey [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:38:57 +0000 (03:38 +0000)]
Remove obsolete DCL symbol from subconfigure.com
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@5751
Charles Bailey [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:29:17 +0000 (03:29 +0000)]
Add VMS' default to the CGI.pm temp list (should update to File::Spec)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@5750
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/perl@5749 'merge in'
ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm (@5507..)
Charles Bailey [Wed, 15 Mar 2000 02:05:28 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Change test using obsolete %COnfig element
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@5749
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:39:42 +0000 (23:39 +0000)]
update local_patches entry for RC2
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5748
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:44:27 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
more warnings tidy-ups (from Paul Marquess)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5747
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:30:43 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
Sys::Syslog fix for accidental arguments to autoloaded constants
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5746
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:20:27 +0000 (22:20 +0000)]
tweak to use SIZE_ONLY
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5745
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:56:48 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
regen win32/config*
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5744
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:46:25 +0000 (21:46 +0000)]
change#5729 had syntax errors
p4raw-link: @5729 on //depot/cfgperl:
36d4c99b292eeccedae13ea063319aca314246bb
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5743
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:26:33 +0000 (21:26 +0000)]
integrate vmsperl changes into mainline (change#5693 denied)
p4raw-link: @5693 on //depot/vmsperl:
925fd5a3f200998584b0c9f5f508f038863055cb
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5742
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/vmsperl@5741 'copy in'
vms/ext/filespec.t (@5564..) t/lib/filespec.t vms/vms.c
(@5689..) configure.com (@5690..) 'edit in'
lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm (@5690..) 'ignore' t/lib/complex.t
(@5690..)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:17:34 +0000 (21:17 +0000)]
update Changes; integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5741
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:57:12 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
perlfaq4 tweak (from Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5740
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:53:07 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
allow alternates to negate correctly (from Johan Vromans)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5739
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:34:19 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
kludge our way around warnings on C<use POSIX; use IO::File;>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5738
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:06:23 +0000 (20:06 +0000)]
protect special characters better against interpretation by *roff
(from Russ Allbery)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5737
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:47:00 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
provide an explicit base address for perl56.dll to avoid relocations;
increase the default stack size (RE engine can use a lot more stack
than the 1MB default limit); default to using the regular version of
the MSVCRT even for DEBUGGING builds (this allows extensions to be
selectively built with debugging)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5736
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:31:53 +0000 (19:31 +0000)]
regen perltoc, other pod nits
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5735
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:08:22 +0000 (19:08 +0000)]
avoid dup warning (from Simon Cozens)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5734
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:46:50 +0000 (18:46 +0000)]
allow usemymalloc to be overridden via -Uusemymalloc
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5733
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:23:47 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
test case for change#5700 (from M. J. T. Guy)
p4raw-link: @5700 on //depot/perl:
386d01d60781c452398a2c213e241a4169059c2c
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5732
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:15:44 +0000 (17:15 +0000)]
revise README.win32 for currentness, point to function
list in perlport.pod (from a patch suggested by Dominic Dunlop)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5731
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:14:21 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
tweak sort() notes (from Nathan Torkington)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5730
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:13:13 +0000 (15:13 +0000)]
Make the tests 1018 and 1019 more robust.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5729
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