From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:48:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: Avoid miscounting bytes in Perl v5.8.x
Message-ID: <7v1wncw92g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11654627303222-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz>

Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> At some point between v5.6 and 5.8 Perl started to assume its input,
> output and filehandles are UTF-8. This breaks the counting of bytes
> for the CVS protocol, resulting in the client expecting less data
> than we actually send, and storing truncated files.

Thanks.  Will queue for both maint and master.