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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Interesting bug
Message-ID: <9754@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:39:18 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.153440.25904@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Oct1.153440.25904@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com writes:
: The following script causes Perl to segmentation fault for me.  I'm
: running PL28 ($Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.7 90/08/13 22:22:22 lwall Locked $
: Patch level: 28) on a Sun 3/50 running Sun OS 4.0.1.  Also, we have no
: device /dev/ttyco.
: 
: $now = time;
: $x = $now - (stat("/dev/ttyco"))[8];

The next update should fix that, since I've outlawed null pointers
on the Perl argument stack.  One of these days...

Larry