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This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.4.
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$ perl -e '$SIG{"ALRM"} = sub { die }; eval { alarm(1); my $x = `sleep 2`; };
chomp ($_="foo\n"); die "Wrong" if /\n/;'
Wrong at -e line 1.
(Thanks to Simon Cozens for simplifying my test case to the above.)
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Flags:
category=core
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.4:
Configured by Debian Project at Sun Dec 12 09:48:10 EST 2004.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.27-ti1211, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux kosh 2.4.27-ti1211 #1 sun sep 19 18:17:45 est 2004 i686
gnulinux '
config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN
-Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprefix=/usr
-Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix=/usr
-Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5
-Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4
-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1
-Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl
-Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib
-Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.4 -Dd_dosuid -des'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-3)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.4
gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl v5.8.4:
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.8
/usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.8.4:
HOME=/home/joshp
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/home/joshp/bin:/bin:/usr/local/imatix/bin:/command:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/lib/firebird2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/sbin
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/bin/bash