Test script to reproduce the problem: #!/usr/bin/env perl $) = "2 2"; print $!; Result from perl 5.28 under strace: setgroups(1, [2]) = 0 setresgid(-1, 2, -1) = 0 Result from perl 5.30 under strace: setgroups(1, [-1]) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) setresgid(-1, 2, -1) = 0 Patch which broke this upstream: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/5d4a52b5c68a11bfc97c2e24806993b84a61eade Issue is that the new function changes the endptr to the end of the scanned number and needs to be reset to the end of the string for each iteration of the loop. [YOCTO #13391] RP 2019/6/14 Upstream-Status: Pending Index: perl-5.30.0/mg.c =================================================================== --- perl-5.30.0.orig/mg.c +++ perl-5.30.0/mg.c @@ -3179,6 +3256,7 @@ Perl_magic_set(pTHX_ SV *sv, MAGIC *mg) const char *p = SvPV_const(sv, len); Groups_t *gary = NULL; const char* endptr = p + len; + const char* realend = p + len; UV uv; #ifdef _SC_NGROUPS_MAX int maxgrp = sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX); @@ -3209,6 +3287,7 @@ Perl_magic_set(pTHX_ SV *sv, MAGIC *mg) Newx(gary, i + 1, Groups_t); else Renew(gary, i + 1, Groups_t); + endptr = realend; if (grok_atoUV(p, &uv, &endptr)) gary[i] = (Groups_t)uv; else {