Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

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August 29th - September 4th

News and Updates

Neil Bowers finished the work on dropping conflicting PAUSE permissions with the removal of the shim for VMS::stdio.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker proposed a new API function: sv_rvunweaken.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132008: Term::ReadLine generates empty &STDERR files.
• Perl #132013: no formats.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #121770: Module::CoreList lists the Win32 module incorrectly.
• Perl #128263: Assert fail in Perl_magic_get without other symptoms.
• Perl #129990: Reduce malloc & free for S_parse_gv_stash_name.
• Perl #131746: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1, which is declared to never be null.
• Perl #131892: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 2, which is declared to never be null.
• Perl #131975: duplicate stack extend reporting for xsubs.
• Perl #131987: Heap Use After Free in Perl_yylex.

Rejected Issues

(This also includes tickets moved upstream.)

• Perl #112520: File::Temp, EXLOCK and nfs without lockd.
• Perl #132001: Null pointer dereference in Perl_sv_setpvn.

Suggested Patches

Jim Keenen provided a patch for Perl #132008 (Term::ReadLine generates empty &STDERR files).

Jim also provided a patch for Perl #120174 (Debugger command regression: Now requires more spaces).

Sullivan Beck provided to update Locale-Codes from 3.52 to 3.54.

Discussions

Karl Willamson covers the facility Perl has for automatically and invisibly substituting reentrant library functions when the non-reentrant one is called. He suggests that we allow module authors to #define PERL_REENTR to gain access to this feature.