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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-08-05 21:50:07 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-08-05 21:50:07 +0000
commit220f3621bb89416ac5e34c6ca96bc839e638a7cc (patch)
treeb3c2f95637d05210f32bf78a31712bfb63a0e5bc /INSTALL
parentb89743e800129adf9c935ed591ee8652c473d0cc (diff)
downloadperl-220f3621bb89416ac5e34c6ca96bc839e638a7cc.tar.gz
additional INSTALL notes from Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
on semget failure in t/lib/ipc_sysv.t p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1742
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@@ -1210,6 +1210,14 @@ V IPC may be broken. The XX typically is 20, and that is what ZZZ
also should be. Consider upgrading your OS, or reconfiguring your OS
to include the System V semaphores.
+=item lib/ipc_sysv........semget: No space left on device
+
+Either your account or the whole system has run out of semaphores. Or
+both. Either list the semaphores with "ipcs" and remove the unneeded
+ones (which ones these are depends on your system and applications)
+with "ipcrm -s SEMAPHORE_ID_HERE" or configure more semaphores to your
+system.
+
=item Miscellaneous
Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5:
@@ -1220,8 +1228,9 @@ NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR.
UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT.
-FreeBSD will fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been
-configured to the kernel.
+FreeBSD can fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been
+configured to the kernel. Perl tries to detect this, though, and
+you will get a message telling what to do.
If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC.