Bug 25618 - Field Count Failing Intermittently
Summary: Field Count Failing Intermittently
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-02 04:39 UTC by Chris Cogdon
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-02 05:03:28 UTC
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Description Chris Cogdon 2001-02-02 04:39:11 UTC
I am receiving some very weird errors from the Perl-based UBB code that 
was recently moved to a machine running redhat-7.0 and perl 5.6.0, from 
redhat-6.2 with perl 5.00503. I've narrowed the problem down to the 
following small snippet of code:

#! /usr/bin/perl

$maxfields = 14;


sub OpenFile {
my $FilePath = shift;

my @thisarray = [];
if (-e "$FilePath") {
open (THISONE, "$FilePath") or die( &StandardHTML("OpenFile $FilePath 
failed: $!<p>Check Paths & Permissions") );
@thisarray = <THISONE>;
close (THISONE);
}  else {
@thisarray = "";
}
return(@thisarray);
}

@f = OpenFile ( "test" );
print "count=$#f\n";
print "@f";

while(1) {

        @fields = OpenFile ( "test" );
        $count = $#fields;
        if ( $count > $maxfields ) {
                print "Fields exceeded $count>$maxfields\n";
        }

}


Where the file "test" contains:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14


The code will occasionally print out 'Fields exceeded 13>14', which is 
simply ludicrous :)

Comment 1 Chris Cogdon 2001-02-02 04:52:24 UTC
Tried the same code on a freebsb box, running perl 5.6.0, and it works fine.

Comment 2 Chris Cogdon 2001-02-02 05:03:24 UTC
Dropped perl-5.6.0-11.i386.rpm onto the system (from fisher), and the problem 
goes away.

Comment 3 David Lawrence 2001-02-13 22:50:21 UTC
Could not recreate the problem using the sample code with perl-5.6.0-11. User
has stated this version also fixes the problem for him. Closing the report.


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