Bug#629363: perl consumes all the memory on: open FILE, '<', \*STDIN or die; <FILE>;

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: perl
Version: 5.12.3-7
Severity: important

perl consumes all the memory on:

  perl -e "open FILE, '<', \*STDIN or die; <FILE>;"

perl 5.10.0-19lenny3 doesn't have this problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb5.1                5.1.25-10        Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3                1.8.3-9          GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base               5.12.3-7         minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules            5.12.3-7         Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase                       4.45       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl     1.20-1+b1  Perl extension for the GNU ReadLin
ii  make                          3.81-8.1   An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl-doc                      5.12.3-7   Perl documentation

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