SPUG: assigning to $0; different Linuces

[Jeremy G Kahn]

one last followup, to remove any shred of mystery...

Jeremy G Kahn wrote:

> http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC4/pod/perldelta.pod#Platform_specific_fixes 
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> Turns out it indeed is a bug in 5.8.0.  I don't know why it works on 
> my Debian 5.8.0 installation; all I can assume is that it was patched 
> in some incremental fix for 5.8.0-debian .

Okay, now I know why it works on my Debian system.  The Debian 
maintainers (Bog bless 'em) have backported the 5.8.1 fix into the 
'testing' release:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178404

Just in case anybody else was dying to know...

--jeremy