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PerlIO-gzip-0.17
River stage three • 21 direct dependents • 105 total dependents
13 ++

Changes for version 0.17 - 2004-06-30

  • Track down the cause of the problem reported by some Linux users. It's another manifestation of the core perlio bug, whereby perlio loses data if you push another layer onto a file handle with unread data. In this case the layer push is happening on some Linux systems because the stdio layer isn't supporting Perl's fast buffer snooping, presuambly because glibc has decided to use mmap() for the file. Work around is for PerlIO::gzip to push its buffering layer before it calls unread, which is a somewhat messy hack, but works. This means that all the TODO tests can be taken out, as they now pass.
  • Fix small typo in read.t

Modules

PerlIO::gzip
Perl extension to provide a PerlIO layer to gzip/gunzip

Other files