OT: Re: [Mimedefang] 2.39 on redhat 7.3

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 12:19, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.
> 

[Which leads to the next branch of mimedefang... TclMeMime...]

> Regards,
> 
> David "I'm afraid of Perl..." Skoll.

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