Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-18 Thread Eric Wong
Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 01:23:51AM +, Eric Wong wrote: > > > At this point (given Perl's maturity); it's less surprising if > > it kept it's lack of error detection in all cases. > > Thanks for caring, but please take your arguments upstream. First off, my apologies to Ia

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-18 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 01:23:51AM +, Eric Wong wrote: > At this point (given Perl's maturity); it's less surprising if > it kept it's lack of error detection in all cases. Thanks for caring, but please take your arguments upstream. It's them you need to convince if you want that change to b

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-17 Thread Eric Wong
ply > comprehensively, so I will comment on some of the details in your > message. With each iteration of the loop in my example, the file size increases as shown by `-s', yet readline isn't returning any data after it sees a transient EOF. > Eric Wong writes ("Re: Bug#1040947: p

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-17 Thread Ian Jackson
the details in your message. Eric Wong writes ("Re: Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file"): > Both can be data loss bugs, but checking a log file which is > being written to by another process is a much more common > occurence than FS failures[1] (or att

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-17 Thread Eric Wong
Niko Tyni wrote: > 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 +, Eric Wong wrote: > > > Package: perl > > > Version: 5.36.0-7 > > > Severity: normal > > > Tags: upst

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-16 Thread Niko Tyni
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 +, Eric Wong wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.36.0-7 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: upstream > > > > Dear Maintainer, > >

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-16 Thread Niko Tyni
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21240 On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:17:54PM +, Eric Wong wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.36.0-7 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > The `readline' op (`') no longer detects updates to file > which is being w

Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file

2023-07-12 Thread Eric Wong
Package: perl Version: 5.36.0-7 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, The `readline' op (`') 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