Hello, a long standing perl bug was recently fixed in Fedora. Namely, perl-5.10.0-69 from Jun 3 fixes bug #221113, a.k.a. http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39060 The problem was that $! was incorrectly set to "Bad file descriptor", even though EOF was reached without any error. The bug lived several years and tought people not to check $!. Really nasty. People should check always errno. It is now possible! Please help spread the word. Alternatively, people might have written a code that _expects_ the incorrect errno. That code needs to be fixed. For example: > --- Data-Dump-Streamer-2.09/t/madness.t.orig 2009-06-12 16:50:09.343385762 +0200 > +++ Data-Dump-Streamer-2.09/t/madness.t 2009-06-12 16:50:19.376389596 +0200 > @@ -260,3 +260,3 @@ _EOF_FORMAT_ > PV8 => "ab\ncd\x{20ac}\t", > - PVM => 'Bad file descriptor', > + PVM => '', > RV => \do { my $v = undef }, This is whet Iain Arnell had to do a few moments ago. This commit made it clear to me that I have to write this announcement. Sorry, Iain and sorry to all others, that this has not came to my mind earlier. Have a nice day, Stepan -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
