In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 6034bceb5f5e62e9785bafdf0590c90656db1cc8
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Mon Sep 27 21:29:15 2010 -0700
perldelta entry for [perl #72990] Mac OS X and setruid, etc.
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 10 ++++++++++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 4f4f0b5..7cffee7 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -446,6 +446,16 @@ L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
=over 4
+=item Mac OS X
+
+Early versions of Mac OS X (Darwin) had buggy implementations of the
+C<setregid>, C<setreuid>, C<setrgid> and C<setruid> functions, so perl
+would pretend they did not exist.
+
+These functions are now recognised on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard; Darwin 9) and
+higher, as they have been fixed
+L<[perl #72990]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72990>.
+
=item Windows
C<$Config{gccversion}> is now set correctly when perl is built using the
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