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Bug 81958

Summary: changing $0 / $PROGRAM_NAME has no effect
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jonathan Schatz <jon>
Component: perlAssignee: Chip Turner <cturner>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Hardware: i686   
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a small test case for this bug none

Description Jonathan Schatz 2003-01-15 19:36:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
assigning a value to $0 or $PROGRAM_NAME has no effect

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[jon@jonschatz-lx jon]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-55


How reproducible:
every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

run the test case i'll attach after i submit this.

Actual results:
the test case fails.

Expected results:
the test case should pass.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jonathan Schatz 2003-01-15 19:37:53 UTC 
Created attachment 89385 [details]
a small test case for this bug

this fails with assigning to $0 and with $PROGRAM_NAME. comment out one or the
other to see it fail with either.
Comment 2 Jonathan Schatz 2003-08-28 00:08:44 UTC 
this seems to be fixed in rh9.0 with:

[jon@jonschatz-lx jon]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-88