Re: perl 5.12.2 on Alpha

On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

>> (and those weird directory corruptions) have been fixed, will  
>> report on that later.
>
> I don't recall hearing about those before.


Carl tells me off-list he's talking about the corruption of directory  
*names* in File::Copy, which was due to a bug in  
File::Spec::catpath().  That bug has been fixed in 5.12.2; as the  
release notes say, "catpath() returns an empty directory rather than  
the current directory if the input directory name is empty."

Other VMS-specific changes are listed here:

<http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5122delta.html#VMS>

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