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Re: FW: [lead-webtb] Perl 5.8.4

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  • Subject: Re: FW: [lead-webtb] Perl 5.8.4
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:55:02 -0700 (MST)
regarding the select() bug in 5.8.0

ok, i can't find a bug number per se, but i did find a perl581delta - what
is new for perl v5.8.1 that describes the select bug at:

http://www.enstimac.fr/Perl/allpod/en-5.8.5/perl581delta.pod

search for select a couple of times.

i can't believe that no new perl rpm has been created for redhat, latest
perl release is already 5.8.6  if michael has some manner of having linux
folks making a new rpm, i would appreciate it as other would too.  i think
the fedora releases have perl version v5.8.3 though.

robb...

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Tom Baltzer wrote:

> Hey Robb,
>
> I thought I'd remembered you identifying this bug, but can't seem to come by
> that information in my e-mail archives.  I did find that you wrote:
>
> The four-argument form of select() did not preserve $! (errno) properly when
> there were errors in the underlying call. This is now fixed. version 5.8.1
>
> So I googled it up and found that this fix refers to Win32 architecture -
> see: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perl581delta.pod
>
> Are you sure that was the problem?  Do you know the perl bug number as
> Michael asks for?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom.
>
> Tom Baltzer
> Software Engineer
> UCAR Office of Programs
> Unidata Program Center
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> Boulder, CO 80307-3000
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden] On
> Behalf Of Michael McEniry
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:31 AM
> Cc: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Re: [lead-webtb] Perl 5.8.4
>
> LEAD - Web and Grid Test Bed Group Mailing List
>
> Marcus A Christie wrote:
> > It's been a few weeks, but a while ago I believe it was Tom who said
> > that we could install perl 5.8.4 to solve the runaway decoder problem
> > (I've observed this with at least metar2nc and ua2nc).  However, since
> > the most up to date perl RPM from Red Hat for RHEL 3.0 isn't 5.8.4, that
> > upgrade path isn't available.  What have others done?  Created a
> > separate local manual installation of perl?
>
> I refuse to maintain a throwaway installation of something as cumbersome
> as perl. If Unidata has identified a known bug (that has already been
> fixed!!!) in perl, then, please, please, please, tell us the perl bug
> number <http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/>, so we can let Red Hat know, so
> they can release a supported update. Help save the world!
>
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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