PERL PERL5 PORTERS 25 RE PATCH FOR PERLBUG 4253
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:48:22 +0100

Subject: Re: Patch for Perlbug #4253
From: rgarciasuarez@no-spam (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)

Nikolai Eipel wrote:
> Hi,
> > I think that the problem is situated in the "pp_sys.c" file. When the function
> PP(pp_fttext) is used for a read protected file this function setted the > variable PL_Laststatval to -1. Than when the function tries to open the not > readable file we get a warning and the function exits. So the PL_Laststatval > variable coundn't be set again.
> > I had run "make test" and all seems to be ok.

Looks ok, thanks, your patch has been applied as change #23986 to the development
version of perl, with a regression test that I adapted from the original bug report.