sybperl-l Archive

From: philip dot c dot w dot chan at hsbcam dot com
Subject: Re: Problem with "attempt to free unreferenced scalar ......
Date: Nov 28 1998 11:14AM

       Michael,

       Yes the qx command having problems are always involved date
       manipulation like the following:

            qx/date +"START:%d-%b-%Y %H:%M" > $global::lock_file/;

       but not sure if that is what you mean by 'native format'.

       Regards,
       Philip





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             05:14 PM

       To:   Philip C W CHAN, SYBPERL-L@listproc.net AT
             INTERNETMAIL@ccMTA-am-hk-lippo
       cc:
       Subject:  Problem with "attempt to free unreferenced scalar
             ..."


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philip.c.w.chan@hsbcam.com writes:
 >        Hi,
 >
 >        Recently I discovered the following error occurred to our
 >        perl/sybperl program:
 >
 >        "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar at          number>"
 >
 >        The problem occurred approximately twice month and isn't
 easy
 >        to simulate.  What I could see is, nearly all occasions the
 >        following command was involved:
 >
 >        " = qx /date .... /"
 >
 >        Has anyone ever came across the same problem? and most
 >        importantly, is there any way to fix it?
 >
 >        We're running HPUX 10.20, perl version is 5.00404 and
 sybperl
 >        is 2.08.
 >
 >        From the latest perl version 5.00502, I read from certain
 >        readme files about fixes on unreferenced memory problems, is
 >        this going to help?

I don't know.

However - do you use the UseDateTime attribute? I've just had another
error report with memory problems with perl 5.004_04 when using the
UseDateTime attribute (ie retrieving dates in native format).

Michael
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