Perl5 Bug Summary
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html
Generated at Mon May 2 13:00:11 2005 GMT
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* Total Issues
* New Issues
* Overview of Open Issues
* Ticket Status By Version
* Requestors with most open tickets
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Total Issues
Open Tickets: 1524
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New Issues
New issues that have not been responded to yet
7-14 days old
35050 Installation Problem Perl 5.8.6 on AIX 5.2
14-21 days old
34981 binding STDIN to scalar hides fd 0 forever
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
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
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
20609 MY_CXT macros and modules with multiple object files
20739 pack format idea
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 $1
22007 PERL5 sysread not returning from interrupt
22034 AutoSplit detection of AutoLoader use fails in certain situations
22051 segfault (deep recursion?) in regex match
22058 Problem Building perl 5.8.0 On AIX 4.3.3
22142 Building failure in AIX4.2 with gcc2.95.3
22312 Another self-modifyingloop bug
22335 foreach auto dereference (feature request)
22336 shellwords.pl is not Shell compatible
22614 Spurious undefs in @- and @+ during (?{}) and (??{}) regexes
22709 Panic opt close in regex m/^(jpy)?(?:_(gc)?(?:_()?)?)?$/
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
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
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 Configure fails perl 5.6.1 - fatal: libdb-4.2.so: open failed
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
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()
30377 sort SUBNAME LIST
30406 File Find anomaly under windows
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 $ENV{PATH} cannot be changed in instance other than the
first
31738 IPC::Open3 doesn't vivify an err filehandle
31907 perlcc
31914 Match variables set to the wrong value after /g match
31946 lvalue subroutines: refinement
31989 5.005 vs 5.8 and Infinity
31991 Function names/globs and unicode
32014 Fw: Need help - Perl-5.8.5 installation error
32047 Parser error? -e 'sub aa{}aa?1:2'
32060 perl 5.8.3/5.8.4 coredumps on compilation
32080 Perl_is_utf8_string reads out of bounds
32083 Warning about scalar @a[$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)
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.
32528 Modifying regex target inside (?{...}) fails badly
32624 [BUG] Freeing unreferenced scalar on cygwin perl 5.8.5 (on top of win2003
server)
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
33027 encode_entities, unicode and why =~ /\s/ == false
33051 /^.../m is slower than logical alternatives
33096 win32_msgwait runs forever with non-infinite timeout
33118 CGI multipart_init() incorrectly quotes other headers
33180 reopen of STDIN doesn't flush input buffer
33688 PathTools fails "make install" under 5.6.1
33752 B::Deparse fails with utf8 and our
33755 utf8_heavy.pl, tainted and insecure dependency
33770 eval { /(?{die})/ }; $@; causes segfault on 5.9.1
33792 any use of interpolation prohibits (??{ }) groups in the pattern
33820 Regex bug: auto-reference to a capture used in a conditonal expression
33831 EMFILE misinterpretation
33832 Unicode problems with format facility
33849 perl 5.8.6 fails to build on IRIX 6.5 due to bizarre preprocessor bug
33938 Locale::Maketext failure_handler_auto problem
33965 Bangline of /path/perl -w -CSD crashes writing DBM file
34030 $/="" suppresses input from PerlIO::scalar
34078 Symbol::delete_package() bug
34144 Regex not matching an UTF-8 string under -d
34180 segfault in perl_clone under ithreads and custom PerlIO layer
34207 syntax error segfaults parser
34231 prototype mismatch warning and sub fwd declaration
34240 builds fail after 5.8.3 on ia64
34252 Access rights in FindBin::Bin
34296 Bug with sv_rvweaken on tied variables
34297 utf8 overload stringify bug (utf8 caching maybe)
34301 IO::Socket calls getpeername far too often
34310 constants in Regex Variable index
34339 "perldoc lib" doesn't describe actual behavior of "use lib"
34342 @_ leaks under threads
34349 SIGSEGV in S_regmatch
34390 Data::Dumper misprints newline character
34489 perl5db.pl noTTY=1 AutoTrace=1 cause problems
34495 h2ph is unable to catenate constant strings in macros
34496 h2ph is unable to parse do { ... } while (0) constructs in macros
34497 hp2h unable to parse macros which have variable initialization
34524 sv_rvweaken (Scalar::Util::weaken) is inneffective on tied variables
34599 Perl program uses tied filehandle crashes in Komodo 3.1 debugger
34639 OK: perl v5.9.2 on darwin-thread-multi-2level 7.8.0 (UNINSTALLED)
34642 OK: perl v5.9.2 on i686-linux-64int-ld 2.4.18-bf2.4
34905 Encode::encode and destruction of the argument
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Overview of Open Issues
Operating System Severity Type Perl Version
aix 29 abandoned 0 5005threads 0 1.0 0
All 21 fatal 2 bounce 0 5.000 0
bsdos 5 High 143 Bug 3 5.002 0
cygwin 15 low 762 compiler 1 5.003 1
cygwin_nt 1 medium 374 configure 2 5.004 2
darwin 13 none 6 core 587 5.004_00 2
dec_osf 14 Normal 3 dailybuild 0 5.004_01 2
dgux 0 unknown 0 docs 18 5.004_02 2
dos 1 Wishlist 16 duplicate 0 5.004_03 2
dynixptx 0 install 42 5.004_04 2
freebsd 44 library 203 5.004_05 2
generic 39 notabug 72 5.005 2
gnu 0 notok 2 5.005_01 2
HPUX 21 ok 0 5.005_02 2
Tru64 1 Patch 4 5.005_03 38
irix 9 regex 10 5.005_04 5
irix64 0 sendToCPAN 1 5.6.0 146
Linux 561 Todo 1 5.6.1 194
lynxos 0 unknown 318 5.6.2 10
mac 0 utilities 26 5.7.0 27
machten 1 wontfix 0 5.7.1 16
macos 0 5.7.2 35
MacOS X 0 5.8.0 246
mswin32 60 5.8.1 64
netbsd 9 5.8.2 56
next 0 5.8.3 82
openbsd 3 5.8.4 79
os2 6 5.8.5 43
os390 0 5.9.0 35
other 0 5.9.1 25
powerux 1 5.9.2 19
qnx 1
riscos 1
sco 4
Solaris 153
sunos 3
svr4 3
svr5 1
sysv 0
unicos 0
unicosmk 0
unix 0
unknown 0
uts 0
vms 5
VOS 0
Win32 34
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Ticket Status By Version
New or Open Resolved
1.0 0 1
5.000 0 1
5.002 0 4
5.003 1 4
5.004 2 5
5.004_00 2 1
5.004_01 2 3
5.004_02 2 1
5.004_03 2 1
5.004_04 2 44
5.004_05 2 5
5.005 2 22
5.005_01 2 4
5.005_02 2 79
5.005_03 38 332
5.005_04 5 0
5.6.0 146 1056
5.6.1 194 469
5.6.2 10 0
5.7.0 27 1458
5.7.1 16 38
5.7.2 35 73
5.8.0 246 451
5.8.1 64 59
5.8.2 56 45
5.8.3 82 48
5.8.4 79 54
5.8.5 43 25
5.9.0 35 28
5.9.1 25 2
5.9.2 19 11
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Requestors with most open tickets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 38
Mark-Jason Dominus 27
Nicholas Clark 20
Stas Bekman 16
David Dyck 14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 14
Dan Jacobson 13
Tom Christiansen 12
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes 8
Zefram 8
