[Mimedefang] 2.39 on redhat 7.3

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote:

> Do you think the emebedded perl problems with 2.39 on rh7.3 are related to
> the version of the perl package installed by default on 7.3, or is it the
> kernel?

Perl.

There are serious bugs in some versions of Perl, I believe; it leaks
memory like crazy.  A colleague of mine ran my code to embed Perl through
Purify and the results were very scary.  The perlembed man page leaves
too much unsaid, and Perl's embedding mechanism is gross compared to
a clean implementation like Tcl.

Regards,

David "I'm afraid of Perl..." Skoll.