Subj : Embedded perl 5.28 & 5.30
To   : Michael Dukelsky
From : Oli
Date : Tue Jun 02 2020 05:28 pm

Michael wrote (2020-06-02):

 MD> Hello All,

 MD> Pavel Gulchouck 2:463/68 informed us in RU.BINKD that there is a bug in
 MD> Perl 5.28.* and 5.30.* because of which binkd may crash during rereading
 MD> its configuration file if embedded Perl of one of those versions is used.
 MD> It happens because when binkd rereads its configuration file, it restarts
 MD> the Perl interpretor and there is a problem with the restart. It should
 MD> be fixed in Perl 5.32.2.

 MD> https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17774

Too bad hasn't been released yet and is not on any distribution. There is only a 5.32.0-RC0 available. The fix is now in blead (the development branch) and should be in 5.32.0-RC1 and the 5.32.0. There will be no backport of the fix to 5.30.x or 5.28.x as it would break compatibility.

The workaround is to disable perl or disable automatic reloading of the config file? Linking against Perl 5.26.x or earlier should work too.

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 * Origin:  (2:280/464.47)

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