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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-05-25 16:13:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-05-25 16:13:08 +0000 |
| commit | 8c1bea16abb5bfc7b9b56a932e319a1623cab1b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 3102f41b468ec6689d74b2523d6cc402b3aba519 /README.beos | |
| parent | 8ad6cd6e30dd4147303864a0fc6d2311046cabef (diff) | |
| download | perl-8c1bea16abb5bfc7b9b56a932e319a1623cab1b9.tar.gz | |
BeOS: update the test status.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16781
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos index b931add73d..de7bfaa3d0 100644 --- a/README.beos +++ b/README.beos @@ -57,21 +57,30 @@ please email me. Tom Spindler dogcow@isi.net -=head2 Update 2002-03-02 +=head2 Update 2002-05-25 -The following tests fail on pre-5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.0: +The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03: - op/magic 24-26 - ext/POSIX/t/sigaction 13 - ext/POSIX/t/waitpid 1 - lib/ExtUtils/t/Installed 9-10 25-27 29-30 33-36 + 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 + lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED at test 39 -None of the failures look too serious: +The reasons for the failures are as follows: =over 4 =item * +The op/lfs and Fcntl/t/syslfs seem to hit a real bug: though we can +seek around past the 2GB limit, reading from there doesn't work. +Therefore, please don't try doing large files in BeOS with Perl. + +=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 @@ -79,6 +88,11 @@ in ways that define logic. =item * +The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions of Perl: +they do not always return the correct user db entries. + +=item * + The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored if sigaction returns early. @@ -90,7 +104,8 @@ errno to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to. =item * -The Installed test has some filesystem portability assumptions. +The Tie/File/t/16_handle seems to indicate some brokenness +(non-UNIXness) in how BeOS handles pipes. =back |