Bug#404593: new info?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2009-10-14 18:40:40 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Given zsh got some corruption and zsh does not contain any Perl
> programs, I conclude that Perl isn't a culprit of your problem. Did
> you see problems since the report has been filed? If no, maybe it'd
> better to close this bug.

Well, in the case of zsh, I later showed that zsh didn't lock the
history properly, I proposed a patch, and the bug was eventually
fixed. FYI, from "/usr/share/doc/zsh/changelog.gz":

2008-04-17  Peter Stephenson  <pws at csr.com>
[...]
        * Vincent Lefevre: 24818: Doc/Zsh/options.yo (modified),
        Src/hist.c (with #ifdef HAVE_FTRUNCATE), Src/options.c, Src/zsh.h:
        history file locking using fcntl().

Concerning the problem I found with Perl, I still don't know the cause.
I couldn't reproduce it since, even though I permanently run programs
under very similar conditions. And as there have been major upgrades of
each software (in particular, perl 5.8 -> perl 5.10), I think it may be
better to close the bug.

Regards,

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