On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:43:09PM -0500, Craig Berry wrote:
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> On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 03:53PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >Given that this patch is entirely in the VMS code, I don't mind putting it
> >into 5.8.5, because it can't affect anything other than VMS, and
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:19:05PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> The attached patch against blead fixes the bug and causes no new test
> failures. The bug was causing a failure in
> lib/I18N/LangTags/t/80_all_env.t in both blead and maint for reasons
> that had only to do with the %ENV infrastruct
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 03:53PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Given that this patch is entirely in the VMS code, I don't mind putting it
>into 5.8.5, because it can't affect anything other than VMS, and you have
>a much better idea of what's sane for VMS than I do. [Plus I
There is an ancient bug in vms/vms.c in the code that does the initial
load of the %ENV hash. The sequence necessary to exercise the bug is to
first initialize an environment variable to a zero-length string, then
do something (such as C) that invokes prime_env_iter, and
finally do something that d
