Re: Latest version of perl?

[email protected] (Alex Waugh) Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:00:49 GMT
Newsgroups perl.riscos
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In message <[email protected]>
          James Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu 28 Mar, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 21:58:43 +0000, James Taylor wrote:
> > > 
> > > There seem to be plenty of bugs in UnixLib (that's the trouble
> > > with OPC). Which bug are you referring to specifically?
> > 
> > I think the one related to the callback,
> 
> You speak as if we should know what that is.

It is (was) a bit infamous, and is also known as the PPP bug. It
generally caused any UnixLib program to completely lock up the machine
when running PPP over the serial port.

> Is there somewhere that we can find out more - maybe a list of known
> bugs and whether they have been fixed, and if so in which version?
> 
> http://hard-mofo.dsvr.net/unixlib/ doesn't seem to have much
> about the state of current development, and certainly no bug
> database or development schedule.

Try http://bugs.hard-mofo.dsvr.net/
The version of UnixLib supplied with the gccsdk is more up to date than
the ones mentioned on the UnixLib page.

Alex

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