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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-12 00:03:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-12 00:03:03 +0000 |
| commit | 096506c92d3382f5f631d39994149f00caf36edf (patch) | |
| tree | 7966a109c2ba0eb559393796f64a023e314c1ea5 /README.beos | |
| parent | b9735fbe46261ffc768a05c081097581832f36c9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-096506c92d3382f5f631d39994149f00caf36edf.tar.gz | |
BeOS failure merge, noticed by Daniel Berger.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17496
Diffstat (limited to 'README.beos')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.beos | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos index 8d2c10913b..cc9f44b14d 100644 --- a/README.beos +++ b/README.beos @@ -61,10 +61,12 @@ dogcow@isi.net The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03: - t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24 - ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3 - ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13 - ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1 + t/op/lfs............................FAILED at test 17 + t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24 + ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs..................FAILED at test 17 + ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3 + ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13 + ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1 The reasons for the failures are as follows: @@ -72,6 +74,15 @@ The reasons for the failures are as follows: =item * +The t/op/lfs and ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs failures indicate that the +LFS (large file support, files larger than 2 gigabytes) doesn't +work from Perl (BeFS itself is well capable of supporting large +files). What fails is that trying to position the file pointer +past 2 gigabytes doesn't work right, the position gets truncated +to its lower 32 bits. + +=item * + The op/magic failures look like something funny going on with $0 and $^X that I can't now figure out: none of the generated pathnames are wrong as such, they just seem to accumulate "./" prefixes and infixes @@ -79,7 +90,7 @@ in ways that define logic. =item * -The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions of Perl: +The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions: they do not always return the correct user db entries. =item * |