id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2227	Perl-5.10.0 issues	randy@…	lfs-book@…	"This ticket is a continuation of ticket #2200 which has been closed.
That ticket was for the update of LFS to Perl-5.10.0. This ticket has
to do with issues brought up by Alexander in the original ticket.
Here's his report:

Debian has 15 ""patch releases"" of this package. That's 2x more than for 5.8.8, i.e., they found a lot of issues with Perl itself (although most of them are Debian-specific). At this point, using unpatched perl seems to be unwise. At the very least:

    * [ROOT HOLE] http://bugs.debian.org/487319 (rmtree() makes symlink targets world-writable)
    * http://bugs.debian.org/479698 (memory corruption that affects tests of the svk package)
    * http://bugs.debian.org/479957 (using IO::File together with POSIX causes useless warnings)
    * http://bugs.debian.org/498769 (sorting an array after pre-growing it causes segfault) 



Note that I cannot reproduce this ""ROOT HOLE"" issue. See #2200 for
some further information."	defect	closed	highest	6.4	Book	SVN	blocker	fixed