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

From Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file
Date 2023-07-16 10:40 +0200
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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

-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org

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Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> - 2023-07-12 23:30 +0200
  Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> - 2023-07-16 10:40 +0200
    Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> - 2023-07-17 07:30 +0200
      Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> - 2023-07-17 09:10 +0200
        Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2023-07-17 16:00 +0200
          Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> - 2023-07-18 03:30 +0200
            Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> - 2023-07-18 15:30 +0200
              Bug#1040947: perl: readline fails to detect updated file Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> - 2023-07-19 06:00 +0200

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