[ID 20000124.001] Refcount problem

[EE <eivind@dev1.hs.yes.no>]

This is a bug report for perl from eivind@yes.no,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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The following snippet of perl shows what I believe to be a refcount problem.
With the reference in place, it seems that the file should not be closed,
yet it is.  #perl on efnet seemed to agree that this was a bug.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my $retval;

#
# Change 0/1 to show code that should be equal give different results
#
if (1) {
    {
	local *FILE;
	open(FILE, ">/dev/stdout")
	    or die "Unable to open output file\n";
	$retval = \*FILE;
    }
    print $retval "Output that fails\n";
} else {
    {
	local *FILE;
	open(FILE, ">/dev/stdout")
	    or die "Unable to open output file\n";
	$retval = \*FILE;
	print $retval "Output that works\n";
    }
}

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by markm at $Date: 1999/05/05 19:42:40 $.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd freefall.freebsd.org 4.0-current freebsd 4.0-current #0: $Date: 1999/05/05 19:42:40 $'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E'
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/root
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/jdk/bin:/usr/games
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/zsh

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Follow-Ups from:

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>

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