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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl PL14 fails io.fs test on Pyramid
Message-ID: <7414@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 14 Mar 90 19:01:47 GMT
References: <1990Mar13.152201.19477@utgard.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Mar13.152201.19477@utgard.uucp> chris@utgard.uucp (Chris Anderson) writes:
: Subject line says it all.  I just compiled PL14 on our
: Pyramid 9825, OSx 4.4c (ucb universe), and after running
: 'make test', perl had failed on test "0".  First problem
: that we've had with the standard test stuff.
: 
: After running perldb on io.fs, I narrowed it down to:
: 	
: 	printf "1..22\n";
: 
: 	$wd = `pwd`;

This is actually the same bug as the HP's have been reporting.  I found
the problem--the patch that looked for VAR=value on the front of
commands to force interpretation by the shell left variable s pointing
into the middle of the string.  (This is in do_exec().)  Unfortunately,
the allocation of the argv right after that presumes that s is pointing
to the end of the string.  Patch 15, which I will put out immediately,
will move the 3 new lines back before the matacharacter scanner.

Larry