Then you have my apologies for casting errant aspersions. It certainly looked like a DBM::Deep bug. Very nice module BTW.

This should be a perfectly valid call, which should return true.

Actually not. pack 'v*', 33, 35, 28, 44; is just a scalar containing some binary data. Still, it shouldn't crash when you pass it to UNIVERSAL::isa()

The problem isn't directly the fault of Net::FTP either, though it may be related, as the bug also manifests in the presence of IO::Socket. This also crashes, and again, only when a value of 33 is packed and passed: 

P:\test>p1
perl> use IO::Socket;;
perl> print $_, UNIVERSAL::isa( pack( 'v*', $_ ), 'SCALAR' ) for 0 .. 
+33;;
0
1
2
[...]
30
31
32

P:\test>rem It segfaulted.

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So the bug appears to be that UNIVERAL::isa() attempts to use the passed value as a reference, and dies if you pass it binary data that isn't--but only if it is/contains "dirty knee", 33! And only if some networking module is loaded? Beyond that is the province of the internals guys.

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In reply to Re^5: A Net::FTP and DBM::Deep clash by BrowserUk
in thread A Net::FTP and DBM::Deep clash by wfsp

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