[MacPerl] Re: bug in MacPerl 5.1.5r4

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

sburke@babel.ling.nwu.edu (Sean M. Burke) writes:
>I just got MacPerl 5.1.5r4, and within a few minutes of running various of
>my Perl scripts with it, I noticed a bizarre bug:
>Whenever this new MacPerl creates a new file or directory, it sets the
>last-modified timestamp of the directory that /the item is in/ to be
>sometime in early January of 1904.  The time seems to be random, and I've
>seen the date range from Jan 1 to Jan 6.
>The dates on the items created are fine, however.

Sigh. That was supposed to be a feature (touching the surrounding folder
tells the Finder to update quicker), but I picked the wrong routines for
getting the current time and as a result, was off by a factor of 60.
(And I promise I'll strangle anybody suggesting a better testing program
for MacPerl in a followup :-)

>Can I look forward to a patch for this directory timestamp bug soon?

No, it's not fixable with a reasonably sized patch. However, the bugs that
have accumulated up to now are serious enough that I'll probably do a full
release around Christmas.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
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    even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_

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