[ The first bug summary of 2005, where we celebrate Columbus' voyage of Exploration, and Steve Peter's tireless efforts to clean up the bug database. ]
Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jan 3 14:00:02 2005 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Total Issues * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with most open tickets ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Issues Open Tickets: 1492 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Issues New issues that have not been responded to yet 7-14 days old 33180 reopen of STDIN doesn't flush input buffer 14-21 days old 33027 encode_entities, unicode and why =~ /\s/ == false 33051 /^.../m is slower than logical alternatives 33054 Segmentation fault in DB_File with perl-5.8.6 gcc-3.3.2 33096 win32_msgwait runs forever with non-infinite timeout 33118 CGI multipart_init() incorrectly quotes other headers Over 21 days old 15764 5.005_03, BeOS: incorrect $? after system invocation (Was: 2.53b on BeOS, 7 failures) 15995 regexp test failures on win32 with VC++ 5.0 17146 Build fails under VAX-DEC-ULTRIX 17175 Perlbug uses interactive commands to the mail command (security issue) 17384 Problem with perl 5.6.1, Tru64 5.1A+pk3, and usemymalloc 17430 getpwuid fails to return proper data from /etc/passwd 17663 Perl 5 Debugger doesn't handle properly lvalue sub assignment 17765 UTF-8 in the debugger 18049 Storable seg faults under perl 5.8.0 solaris, maximal 64bit 18073 Unwanted clearing of array member when used as name of a file to be Read-opened (reach of EOF ???) 18218 DJGPP input buffering bug while system() 18892 Perl_Parse from JNI Native code crashing... 18904 Perl 5.6.1, DJGPP, case (in)sensitive env. var. names [PATCH] 18961 Problem compiling DBD::Pg with thread support in 5.8 on Mac OS 10.2.2 19078 wrong match order inside replacement 19088 Thread::Queue 19134 no progress lookbehind in list contex 19135 string eval turns off readonlyness on lexicals 19388 Regex vars after a while only existing if they have been "used" 20321 indexing the result of a listcontext match inside a stringsubstitution looses values 20353 Perl 5.8.0 fails "make test" on Cobalt Raq4 20421 Bug in IO::Socket on Sparc 20505 perlbug doc shows no way to set SMTP server 20522 perl segfaults growing large Av 20609 MY_CXT macros and modules with multiple object files 20739 pack format idea 20771 Regular Expression Eval Causes Core Dump 21362 positioning after binary read 21461 perl5.6.1 dos (djgpp) source build broke 21491 Double-Quote Backslash Sequences in Regular Expressions 21499 perl core dumps on self recursive regex 21502 5.8.0 regression failure for t/op/groups 21555 Trouble compiling Perl 5.8.0 on Irix 6.2 21607 Bug Installing 21724 segfault in 5.8.0's PerlIOStdio_close 21776 dup2 on XP 21940 seg fault on long input to re 21951 /(^\s]+)/ regexp can incorrectly fail match in utf8 locale 21956 Data::Dumper request 21999 Unsuccessful regex still alters $1 22007 PERL5 sysread not returning from interrupt 22034 AutoSplit detection of AutoLoader use fails in certain situations 22051 segfault (deep recursion?) in regex match 22058 Problem Building perl 5.8.0 On AIX 4.3.3 22132 5.8.0: goto inside any loop causes seg-fault when exiting loop 22142 Building failure in AIX4.2 with gcc2.95.3 22312 Another self-modifyingloop bug 22335 foreach auto dereference (feature request) 22336 shellwords.pl is not Shell compatible 22601 LWP Error: Wide character in syswrite 22614 Spurious undefs in @- and @+ during (?{}) and (??{}) regexes 22699 redo undefines lexical declared in while 22709 Panic opt close in regex m/^(jpy)?(?:_(gc)?(?:_()?)?)?$/ 22735 Losing signals using sigprocmask 22758 debugger command "|x" swallows all output 22763 perl-5.8.0 build fails with aix 4.3.3 22819 Segmentation fault on "make install" on AIX 4.2.1.0 22948 windows fork on Perl 5.8 22950 h2xs doesn't handle apostrophes in names 22959 missing symbols from embed.h when testing B::Generate 22960 Tie::Handle documentation inadequate 23035 ByteLoader 23043 different behaviors observed with stdio vs. perlio 23098 core dump -> "perl in malloc(): error: recursive call" 23104 undefined reference to `SOCKSinit' 23111 Configure hangs on fcntl test when trying to bulid Perl 5.8.0 on AIX 4.3.3.0 23170 Cannot compile Perl-5.8.0 on IRIX 6.5.20 23175 Trouble compiling perl5 5.8.1 RC3 on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 23180 "target is too short" optimization does not reset pos() 23214 5.8.1-RC4: Cannot eval a large string under -Dusemymalloc 23233 Perl-5.8.1-RC4 - perldelta: tied hashes in scalar context 23244 Sharing objects via threads::shared. 23331 Win32 pipe/fork or filehandle I/O deadlock bug 23348 [wishlist] Perl 5-6: HERE << document parsing improvement 23357 Storable works very strange 23573 valgrind error from t/op/subst.t 23644 missing perl_get_sv in Time::HiRes 23666 Core dump on big regex 23722 ByteLoader question 23790 for lvalue_sub 23801 security: setuid/taint inconsistency 23839 Failing match still resets regex vars 23907 Crash during global destruction with Storable and threads 23963 Possible buffer overrun in threads 24013 Data::Dumper segfaults on very large recurive structures 24170 ReadParse in the CGI docs 24182 Objects loosing overload magic during DESTROY 24206 SDBM_File sometimes fails with "sdbm store() returned -1" 24219 5.8.1 Socket fails to link on AIX 4.1 24274 METABUG - regex stack overflow issues 24275 CPAN shell - online help not clear 24276 Coercing arrays into hashes 24294 CGI.pm shares the param namespace with the attribute namespace 24366 signal flags not restored 24395 Eval still leaks in 5.8.1 24404 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: require "string" may load a directory 24415 5.8.1 build problem 24441 out of memory installing Net::SSLeay 1.25 24446 5.8.2 fails to build on AIX with GCC 24457 write() removes trailing spaces 24495 make test blocked with Mingw & PERLIO=stdio :crlf 24496 Exploiting PerlIO "feature" with trepidation 24525 Linux sigaction SIGCHLD vs popen race condition 24536 Perl 5.6.1 -- sigaction - SIGxxx handler not defined 24537 HP-UX 11.00 -- SA_RESTART not allowing EINTR through to select 24542 CGI multipart should support nph parameters 24569 segmentation fault with Safe and /(?{...})/ 24684 Too late warning not given for CHECK block in INIT block 24691 leading spaces on cpan configuration causes failure 24818 bug in fh pointers w/perlio on dup() 24887 perl-5.8.3-RC1 install and modules install 25151 [PATCH] Text::Balanced extract_multiple, neg. substr length 25156 [PATCH] Text::Balanced extract_quotelike fails on empty HERE docs 25158 [PATCH] Text::Balanced _match_bracketed, incorrect handling defined 25933 Storable, exception handling on callback methods inconsistent 26019 strange encoding behavior with diamond <> operator (and ARGV) 26566 perl 5.6.1 26866 Autovivication of an assignment 26988 EOF character (0x1A) returned as data when reading text files 26992 perl 5.8.3, PERL_FLEXIBLE_EXCEPTIONS, and Exception:Cxx 27052 File::Spec->canonpath("a\\..\\..\\b") returns wrong value for Win 32 27053 /^/m doesn't match after a newline at the end of the string 27142 Failed test in groups.t 27188 Not OK: perl 5.00504 on i686-linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 27319 minitest t/op/magic.t fails 26 27352 getsockname of listen socket blocks in child 27380 (;$) prototype doesn't parse the same as CORE::length 27472 Switch is confused by ($) prototype 27603 Incorrect regexp warning 27764 Out Of Memory Problem 27781 a perlio bug in in-memory-variables opened to STD streams when running under more than one interpreter 27898 help to compile perl, please 27938 'local $@' does not work 28121 Perl 5.8 on AIX 5.2 28165 Spurious "Eval-group not allowed at runtime" 28364 Perl segfaults if XS changes system environment 28385 minor bug in cpan -- the i command does not find author 28396 bug or wrong doc for 'foreach $lexical' 28824 signal handler can clobber $! 28883 regular expression failure on string from a file 28961 unsafe signals 29224 proposed fix for references to tied hash keys 29230 Class::Struct, accessor overrides not called from constructor 29258 Perl 5.8.3 problem: Can't find perl.exp during make 29548 perlcc fails when Perl is installed in a directory whose path contains spaces (e.g. as in C:\Program Files\Perl). I have a solution also ready. 29719 [PerlIO] Warning with char that does not map to STDERR encoding leads to infinite cycle. 29720 $PerlIO::encoding::fallback = FB_DEFAULT leads to duplicated output 29932 Minor copy-paste bug in File::Spec::Win32->splitpath() 30296 localizing $? loses exit status from die() 30377 sort SUBNAME LIST 30406 File Find anomaly under windows 30563 [PATCH] Storable::dclone fails for tied elements 30622 -e tests not reliable under Win32 30660 Repeated spaces on shebang line stops option parsing 30661 sort function @args will not autoload 30673 Missing getmagic in Digest::MD5 30715 IPC::Open3 child may return in the child process 30774 Encode::decode doesn't support CHECK=FB_CROAK 30807 Misleading error message from Storable 30811 build fail, perl 5.8.4, ia64-unknown-linux-gnu, gcc 3.3.4 30978 "make test" op/write failure 31080 make failure report & plea for assistance 31089 Test failure in ext/IO/t/io_xs 31300 PerlIO::via UTF8 method 31422 can't write open() wrapper without affecting how the FH is parsed 31540 Confusing information in manual page for utf8::decode and utf8::upgrade 31679 Installation 5.8.2: MAKE command stops at miniperl 31711 embedded perl $ENV{PATH} cannot be changed in instance other than the first 31738 IPC::Open3 doesn't vivify an err filehandle 31854 install failing 31907 perlcc 31914 Match variables set to the wrong value after /g match 31946 lvalue subroutines: refinement 31989 5.005 vs 5.8 and Infinity 31991 Function names/globs and unicode 32014 Fw: Need help - Perl-5.8.5 installation error 32047 Parser error? -e 'sub aa{}aa?1:2' 32060 perl 5.8.3/5.8.4 coredumps on compilation 32080 Perl_is_utf8_string reads out of bounds 32083 Warning about scalar @a[$b] triggered in list context 32103 Perl doesn't support RAII, part 1 [patch included] 32105 Perl doesn't support RAII, part 3 [patch included] 32135 File::Copy module 32144 Not OK: perl v5.8.5 +MAINT23414 on cygwin-thread-multi-64int 1.5.11 (0.11642) (UNINSTALLED) 32294 index()/rindex() ignore UTF8 flag 32390 t/comp/use test 3 fails looking for Perl 5.8.10 on 5.8.5 on Solaris 9, 64-bit Sun Studio 9 builds. 32394 Can't handle a directory that has <0x5c> at the end on the Windows system. 32406 abs_path in Cwd 3.01 fails for any path when . is unreadable. 32498 h2xs generates incorrect code for Makefile.PL for enums 32503 Fix for Storable module 32528 Modifying regex target inside (?{...}) fails badly 32581 Bytecode Array Element Regression 32624 [BUG] Freeing unreferenced scalar on cygwin perl 5.8.5 (on top of win2003 server) 32660 INT2PTR not mentioned in perlxs(1) 32686 Term::ReadLine::readline.pm and extensions like "mark-symlinked-directories" 32687 Encode::is_utf8 on tainted UTF8 string returns false 32713 Class member vanishes during global destruction 32766 Scanning random memory with pack 32803 regular expression segfaults perl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview of Open Issues Operating System Severity Type Perl Version aix 29 abandoned 0 5005threads 0 1.0 0 All 18 fatal 2 bounce 0 5.000 0 bsdos 6 High 134 Bug 2 5.002 0 cygwin 16 low 726 compiler 1 5.003 0 cygwin_nt 1 medium 373 configure 1 5.004 0 darwin 9 none 10 core 574 5.004_00 0 dec_osf 14 Normal 2 dailybuild 0 5.004_01 0 dgux 0 unknown 0 docs 18 5.004_02 0 dos 1 Wishlist 16 duplicate 0 5.004_03 0 dynixptx 0 install 49 5.004_04 0 freebsd 45 library 202 5.004_05 0 generic 39 notabug 71 5.005 0 gnu 0 notok 8 5.005_01 0 HPUX 23 ok 0 5.005_02 0 irix 9 Patch 3 5.005_03 36 irix64 0 regex 9 5.005_04 2 Linux 546 sendToCPAN 1 5.6.0 150 lynxos 0 Todo 1 5.6.1 198 mac 0 unknown 289 5.6.2 6 machten 1 utilities 25 5.7.0 25 macos 0 wontfix 0 5.7.1 13 MacOS X 0 5.7.2 33 mswin32 63 5.8.0 253 netbsd 9 5.8.1 59 next 0 5.8.2 54 openbsd 4 5.8.3 81 os2 6 5.8.4 68 os390 0 5.8.5 34 other 0 5.9.0 32 powerux 1 5.9.1 23 qnx 1 5.9.2 16 riscos 1 sco 4 Solaris 155 sunos 3 svr4 3 svr5 1 sysv 0 unicos 0 unicosmk 0 unix 0 unknown 0 uts 0 vms 6 VOS 0 Win32 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticket Status By Version New or Open Resolved 1.0 0 1 5.000 0 1 5.002 0 4 5.003 0 4 5.004 0 5 5.004_00 0 1 5.004_01 0 3 5.004_02 0 1 5.004_03 0 1 5.004_04 0 44 5.004_05 0 5 5.005 0 22 5.005_01 0 4 5.005_02 0 79 5.005_03 36 332 5.005_04 2 0 5.6.0 150 1051 5.6.1 198 464 5.6.2 6 0 5.7.0 25 1457 5.7.1 13 38 5.7.2 33 72 5.8.0 253 447 5.8.1 59 59 5.8.2 54 44 5.8.3 81 46 5.8.4 68 41 5.8.5 34 16 5.9.0 32 28 5.9.1 23 1 5.9.2 16 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Requestors with most open tickets [EMAIL PROTECTED] 38 Mark-Jason Dominus 28 Nicholas Clark 16 David Dyck 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Stas Bekman 12 Tom Christiansen 12 Hugo 8 Peter Scott 8 Zefram 8
