RE: [ID 20000125.001] Problem with Fcntl constants

["Warren Odom" <warren-odom@stenocall.com>]

Warren> When I Emailed Randal to ask whether this has been reported, I
Warren> didn't understand his reply (he referred to a followup message
Warren> that as far as I can see doesn't seem to exist, or at least my
Warren> news server isn't showing it).  So rather than take up any
Warren> more of his time, I'm just going ahead and reporting it as a
Warren> Perl bug to you.

<<It wasn't my reply.>>

Didn't mean to imply it was.  There may be something wrong with my ISP's
news server-the other day, in another thread in another newsgroup, some
messages seemed to appear out of nowhere, long after they were written.  I
still can see no newsgroup message (from anyone) saying it can't be fixed.

<<The reason it cannot be fixed is that those
constants are AUTOLOADed, which means that they cannot have a
prototype of any consequence.
Not fixable without major surgery.>>

Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that.  After you said in the newsgroup they
should be prototyped differently, I took that as gospel.  And I recall you
mentioned autoloading in your first mail, but I'm not familiar with it so
that didn't mean anything to me.

Maybe this could be put on the wishlist for possible resolution sometime
when doing surgery anyway.

         -- Warren

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References to:

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)

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