Bug#650518: libproc-processtable-perl: Module expects english locale

[gregor herrmann]

tag 650518 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:17:37 +0100, Wolfgang Leuchuk wrote:

> My perl skript uses this module. When I try to access the field "pid" of the
> process table it exits with the error message "Your vendor has not defined
> Proc::ProcessTable macro pid at " my script some line number. The error message
> is not from my script but from the module.
> 
> When I debug it I find in the file Proc::ProcessTable::AUTOLOAD (says the perl
> debugger) a comparison "if ($! ~= /Invalid/)" which is never true when the
> locale is german and the OS-error is reported consequently in german. As it
> can't be true it always exits with the above mentioned error message.
> 
> I can circumnavigate the problem by setting the locale to english, but this in
> my humble opinion not the way it should work.

Thanks for your bug report; unfortunately I can't reproduce it; I
tried running the test suite and the example.pl under a German
locale, and I didn't encounter any problems.

Could you please provide us with instructions and/or a minimal
example script on how to reproduce the error?

Thanks,
gregor

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