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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/Changes5.003 b/contrib/perl5/Changes5.003 deleted file mode 100644 index daba248..0000000 --- a/contrib/perl5/Changes5.003 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,100 +0,0 @@ -------------- -Version 5.003 -------------- - - ***> IMPORTANT NOTICE: <*** -The main reason for this release was to fix a security bug affecting -suidperl on some systems. If you build suidperl on your system, it -is strongly recommended that you replace any existing copies with -version 5.003 or later immediately. - -The changes in 5.003 have been held to a minimum, in the hope that this -will simplify installation and testing at sites which may be affected -by the security hole in suidperl. In brief, 5.003 does the following: - -- Plugs security hole in suidperl mechanism on affected systems - -- MakeMaker was also updated to version 5.34, and extension Makefile.PLs - were modified to match it. - -- The following hints files were updated: bsdos.sh, hpux.sh, linux.sh, - machten.sh, solaris_2.sh - -- A fix was added to installperl to insure that file permissions were - set correctly for the installed C header files. - -- t/op/stat.t was modified to work around MachTen's belief that /dev/null - is a terminal device. - -- Incorporation of Perl version information into the VMS' version of - config.h was changed to make it compatible with the older VAXC. - -- Minor fixes were made to VMS-specific C code, and the routine - VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand was added. - ----------------- -Version 5.002_01 ----------------- - -- The EMBED namespace changes are now used by default, in order to better - segregate Perl's C global symbols from those belonging to embedding - applications or to libraries. This makes it necessary to rebuild dynamic - extensions built under previous versions of Perl without the EMBED option. - The default use of EMBED can be overridden by placing -DNO_EMBED on the - cc command line. - - The EMBED change is the beginning of a general cleanup of C global - symbols used by Perl, so binary compatibility with previously - compiled dynamic extensions may be broken again in the next few - releases. - -- Several bugs in the core were fixed, including the following: - - made sure FILE * for -e temp file was closed only once - - improved form of single-statement macro definitions to keep - as many ccs as possible happy - - fixed file tests to insure that signed values were used when - computing differences between times. - - fixed toke.c so implicit loop isn't doubled when perl is - invoked with both the -p and -n switches - -- The new SUBVERSION number has been included in the default value for - architecture-specific library directories, so development and - production architecture-dependent libraries can coexist. - -- Two new magic variables, $^E and $^O, have been added. $^E contains the - OS-specific equivalent of $!. $^O contains the name of the operating - system, in order to make it easily available to Perl code whose behavior - differs according to its environment. The standard library files have - been converted to use $^O in preference to $Config{'osname'}. - -- A mechanism was added to allow listing of locally applied patches - in the output of perl -v. - -- Miscellaneous minor corrections and updates were made to the documentation. - -- Extensive updates were made to the OS/2 and VMS ports - -- The following hints file were updated: bsdos.sh, dynixptx.sh, - irix_6_2.sh, linux.sh, os2.sh - -- Several changes were made to standard library files: - - reduced use of English.pm and $`, $', and $& in library modules, - since these degrade module loading and evaluation of regular expressions, - respectively. - - File/Basename.pm: Added path separator to dirname('.') - - File/Copy.pm: Added support for VMS and OS/2 system-level copy - - MakeMaker updated to v5.26 - - Symbol.pm now accepts old (') and new (::) package delimiters - - Sys/Syslog.pm uses Sys::Hostname only when necessary - - chat2.pl picks up necessary constants from socket.ph - - syslog.pl: Corrected thinko 'Socket' --> 'Syslog' - - xsubpp updated to v1.935 - - -- The perlbug utility is now more cautious about sending mail, in order - to reduce the chance of accidentally send a bug report by giving the - wrong response to a prompt. - -- The -m switch has been added to perldoc, causing it to display the - Perl code in target file as well as any documentation. - |
