From @cpansprout

This one fails​:

eval "<\n>; 1" or print $@​;

This one succeeds in perl, but not miniperl (because miniperl calls sh, which doesn’t like the null)​:

eval "<\0\n>; 1" or print $@​;

This one fails (it has to be in a sring eval to work)​:

perl -e 'print "<\0\n>"' | perl -MO=Deparse

Flags​:
  category=core
  severity=low

Site configuration information for perl 5.17.5​:

Configured by sprout at Sat Sep 22 18​:51​:23 PDT 2012.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 17 subversion 5) configuration​:
  Snapshot of​: 451f421
  Platform​:
  osname=darwin, osvers=10.5.0, archname=darwin-2level
  uname='darwin pint.local 10.5.0 darwin kernel version 10.5.0​: fri nov 5 23​:20​:39 pdt 2010; root​:xnu-1504.9.17~1release_i386 i386 '
  config_args='-de -Dusedevel -DDEBUGGING'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
  useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
  use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include',
  optimize='-O3 -g',
  cppflags='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
  libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc
  perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc
  libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl 5.17.5​:
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.17.5/darwin-2level
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.17.5
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.17.5/darwin-2level
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.17.5
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
  .

Environment for perl 5.17.5​:
  DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  HOME=/Users/sprout
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/usr/bin​:/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/X11/bin​:/usr/local/bin
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/bash

From @jkeenan

On Sun Oct 14 13​:09​:47 2012, sprout wrote​:

This one fails​:

eval "<\n>; 1" or print $@​;

Is this the failure you are referring to​:

#####
$ perl -E 'eval "<\n>; 1" or print $@​;'
Unterminated <> operator at (eval 1) line 1.
#####

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @cpansprout

On Oct 14, 2012, at 5​:54 PM, James E Keenan via RT wrote​:

On Sun Oct 14 13​:09​:47 2012, sprout wrote​:

This one fails​:

eval "<\n>; 1" or print $@​;

Is this the failure you are referring to​:

#####
$ perl -E 'eval "<\n>; 1" or print $@​;'
Unterminated <> operator at (eval 1) line 1.
#####

Yes, but you can sneak past it with a null, *if* it is inside a string eval.

From zefram@fysh.org

Leaving aside miniperl, which doesn't matter, the
inconsistency in "<\0\n>" was recently resolved by commit
85bb8b9 "toke.c​: Convert some strchr
to memchr". This ticket can now be closed.

-zefram

@iabyn - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'