On 22/7/02 at 12:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Moy) wrote:

> On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 11:19  AM, David Wheeler wrote:
> 
> > On 7/22/02 7:47 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed:
> >
> >> I think you are giving me too much credit, as I wasn't even aware 
> of
> >> the thread-safe localtime bug (if you know the Radar number, I'd 
> like
> >> to look it up).  I'm not on the team that is in charge of Perl; I'm
> >> just an interested Perl user at Apple.
> >
> > Bummer. This seems like it'd be a good place for such a team hang 
> out, 
> > so I
> > guess I just kind of assumed it was you. Oh, well.
> >
> > Here's more information from Artur, for those who want to check the 
> > bug:
> >
> > "I reported the bug to apple and it has radar bug 2850918, however 
> > seems
> > like radar is down so I can't check it."
> 
> 2850918 has be closed, as Jaguar contains a suite of thread-safe time 
> routines, including localtime_r().  Does 5.8.0 know to use the _r 
> versions?
> 
> >> If the thread-safe localtime bug is an important issue to you, I
> >> recommend you add your comments to the above mentioned Radar.  The 
> >> more
> >> visible this issue becomes, the higher priority it well get.
> >
> > Okay. There are a few bugs like this (the dbm library issue, a lack 
> of
> > strptime, a couple of broken options in strftime), so maybe I'll add 
> > some
> > comments to the relevant radar numbers over the next few days.
> 
> Yes, please do.  The Berkeley DB issue is still unresolved, though 
> others may be already fixed in Jaguar.

On the subject of Jaguar, I can't seem to find any info on the version of Perl that 
will ship with it (or an estimation).

If it's not breaking any NDA's, can anybody say (or point me in the right direction)?

Regards,

Phil.

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