Leon Timmermans

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> I think it seems useful to have a list of platforms such that: > > * we consider not building on platform X to be a bug, to be...

> The original concept/whiteboard of spliting the mega "all 17 types" SV allocator into 17 tiny separate tiny allocators optimization is an excellent idea IMO. The optimization just needs to...

Both being shadow repositories makes it a bit more difficult (it means that packages aren't shown unless they're also packaged by a repository that isn't shadowed). That can make the...

> I'll check out PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS - replacing all I/O is fine for my usecase, as my custom I/O functions only serve from in-memory for some special prefixes like /mnt/perl. Is...

I don't think overriding PerlIO is the way to go here. That is, unless you want the modules to be open()able as if they really existed. Pushing your own handler...

> It also would allow more simple compilation of Perl to WASI target (which might not have the built-in virtual FS feature as opposed to Emscripten) That really sounds like...

It probably would help a lot if we'd first write a generic implicit sys implementation, because you probably don't want to redefine all of it.

> OK. Possibly a stupid question. Is this in any way a potential security vulnerability (segfaults often are)? If so, can a CVE be registered. That will then trigger some...

> Another silly question. Is it possible that this patch could cause signals to be lost to libraries in forked threads? (Or is there a significant difference in Perl 5.32...

> On Linux at least, the main thread has the same thread id from pthread_self() in both the parent and child processes. What do you mean with the same? They're...