Re: New perl packages

[Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:05:29PM +0100, Jonas Liljegren wrote:
>Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
>> [...] as the fix of adding parenthesis seemed rather dubious to me
>> ("&_PATH_LOG || croak" and "&_PATH_LOG() || croak" should behave
>> identically in this instance), [...]

>If @_ is defined then you call a sub without using (), the old value
>of @_ will still be defined inside the sub.  [...]

Quite true, although I didn't believe that it made a difference in
this case as @_ should be empty.

I was able to trigger this bug however by passing an incorrect number
of arguments to syslog (ie. too many).

I've re-applied the patch.

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
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