On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 11:35:49AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21240 > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:17:54PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.36.0-7 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: upstream > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > The `readline' op (`<FH>') no longer detects updates to file > > which is being written to in Perl 5.36.0 after updating to bookworm. > > > > The attached script worked fine with Perl 5.32.1 in oldstable, > > both scripts show the size changing with the `-s FH' op. > > Same behavior on both amd64 and i386. > > Thanks for the report. > > This changed with > > > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/80c1f1e45e8ef8c27d170fae7ade41971fe20218 > > which went upstream in 5.37.4. We backported it for 5.36 to fix #1016369 . > > I've forwarded it upstream as https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21240
Upstream says it's a direct consequence of fixing #1016369 so the earlier behaviour of reading after EOF was a bug. You need to clear the EOF flag by calling $rd->clearerr() or seek($rd, 0, SEEK_CUR) to get the appended lines. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
