Bug 81958 - changing $0 / $PROGRAM_NAME has no effect
Summary: changing $0 / $PROGRAM_NAME has no effect
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chip Turner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-15 19:36 UTC by Jonathan Schatz
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-04-22 14:45:43 UTC

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2003-01-15 19:37 UTC, Jonathan Schatz 		no flags Details
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Description Jonathan Schatz 2003-01-15 19:36:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
assigning a value to $0 or $PROGRAM_NAME has no effect

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[jon@jonschatz-lx jon]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-55


How reproducible:
every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

run the test case i'll attach after i submit this.

Actual results:
the test case fails.

Expected results:
the test case should pass.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jonathan Schatz 2003-01-15 19:37:53 UTC 
Created attachment 89385 [details]
a small test case for this bug

this fails with assigning to $0 and with $PROGRAM_NAME. comment out one or the
other to see it fail with either.
Comment 2 Jonathan Schatz 2003-08-28 00:08:44 UTC 
this seems to be fixed in rh9.0 with:

[jon@jonschatz-lx jon]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-88
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