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. Edward Moy Apple
