Re: important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Brian May wrote:
> I strongly suspect that problem is that the break cannot exit from the
> while loop. As a test example:
> 
> perl -e 'while (1) { print "hi\n"; break; }'
> 
> this never exits the loop. Then again does break even exist in perl??
> I think the fix is to replace "break" with "last". Not tested.

Yes, of course it is. To illistrate:

joey@gumdrop:~>perl -e 'there_is_no_perl_command_with_this_name'
joey@gumdrop:~>perl -we 'there_is_no_perl_command_with_this_name' 
Useless use of a constant in void context at -e line 1.

This is why you should always use -w.

'last' is the correct command.

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