From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 19:00:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18110 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18038 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:00:07 GMT (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02534; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:00:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd002468; Mon Apr 13 18:59:57 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05892; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:59:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804140159.SAA05892@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: htags fails. To: shigio@wafu.netgate.net (Shigio Yamaguchi) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:59:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shigio@wafu.netgate.net In-Reply-To: <199804121712.KAA29327@hub.freebsd.org> from "Shigio Yamaguchi" at Apr 13, 98 02:12:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems that /usr/bin/perl leaks memory. > Here is a workaround. > > # cd /cdrom/packages/lang > # pkg_add perl-5.00401.tgz > # mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.org > # ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl > > Why is /usr/bin/perl version 4.0? Because Perl 5 is not backward compatible in various areas, and people have scripts that depend on the old syntax, which break under the new (gratuitously changed for no good reason) syntax. The scripts need to be changed, preferrably by the perl maintainers, the better to teach them to either avoid syntax changes and/or think about the problems the language needs to solve before implementing syntax which will later need to be changed because it wasn't Von Neumann complete. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message