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A security/exploit question that needs to be answered. Is Perl's responsibility regarding `$0` and `$^X`, limited to capturing and forever returning the strings seen at `/usr/bin/perl` initial process startup? Or...

I forgot there was a tech term for what I was thinking. Is Perl ACID compliant? Is Torvalds's and GNU's C code ACID compliant? Is the OP's patch ACID compliant?...

https://linux.die.net/man/2/getdents64 https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/readdir https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pp_sys.c#L4312 How much is the bug bounty again? `` I just learned GNUware's `ls` is atomic. Perl is not. Your shell is not. Your video card is not....

> A script can assign to `$0`, so its value definitely can't be backed by kqueue or inotify or any other type of ongoing measure to "keep it up to...

> Possibly fixed by [85e9706](https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/85e97066288fa0be7b08897c6306e33ea2ef45d7) I read somewhere online (gossip), pthreads wants to or did actually deploy to prod a change, that their `pthread_t` type is now a 16 byte...

> Thanks for the observation. I thought the GDB output seemed to suggest this wasn't a main thread; but I wasn't exactly ready to believe because I'm not creating any...

> Though I kind of doubt any implementation does use non-scalar `pthread_t` - it would break too much code. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/open-xl-c-cpp-zos/2.1.0?topic=guide-binary-compatibility Internal type went from `char thd [8]` to `void *`...

> > doas /usr/local/bin/spamd --help > Encode.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got first handshake key 0xeb80000, needed 0xf280000) > ``` > > So, there is a conflict,...

> As a general note: I find the end-user experience here _very_ poor. As a core perl developer I can justabout guess what's happened, but a more casual end user...

What does this C code do when it executes on on Plan9, OS/2, Windows, and VMS?