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authorDominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>1997-04-08 22:15:15 +0200
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1997-04-07 00:00:00 +0000
commitf56dede6f0d67b2435681a318bccb04d4f017fbd (patch)
tree4821cbec6808e614edd377377823119b187f6e21 /minimod.pl
parent4ae80833094c9f785b5bbead992abe3e19d8928b (diff)
downloadperl-f56dede6f0d67b2435681a318bccb04d4f017fbd.tar.gz
Accommodate CodeBuilder variant of Machten 4.0.3
The following patch against _97b massages a couple of test files so that CodeBuilder 1.0, a derivative of MachTen 4.0.3, passes all tests (except lib/db-recno, due to an old DB library). The patch does three things: 1. Make op/stat.t test 35 look in /usr/bin for SUID files iff $^O has value 'machten'. (PowerBuilder has /bin directory, but it contains no SUID files. Perl5 porters with reasonable memories may remember that the test got retargetted at /bin only in January. Sigh. A better fix than this quick hack is really required.) 2. Make op/stat.t test 39 check for value of $^O, succeeding if it's 'machten'. (PowerBuilder and other MachTen variants lack /MachTen directory, but all have a uname which says they're 'machten'.) 3. Amend io/fs.t test 25 so that it tests whether truncate can reduce the length of a file attached to a filehandle, mirroring test 23's check of whether truncate can reduce the length of a named file, rather than testing whether truncate can extend an empty file attched to a filehandle. (See discussion below.) NOTE IN PARTICULAR POINT 3: CodeBuilder is distinguished from MachTen 4.0.3 in supporting a true Berkeley Fast File System as an alternative to MacOS' incredibly slow Heirarchical File System. CodeBuilder's FFS code is derived from 4.3BSD, and does not allow truncate() to extend a file's size. The HFS code is derived from 4.4BSD, and does allow such extension. (The man page for truncate(2) has not, as far as I can tell, changed in a long time, and has reather slippery wording: it's not clear whether extension is allowed, and the system errors one might expect for failed extension -- ENOSPC and others -- are not mentioned.) Looking at the io/fs.t, it seems that a typo may have turned a check that the length of a file attached to a handle can be reduced into a check that it can be extended. The patch "fixes" the test to check for length reduction. If, on the other hand, it should indeed be a test of extension (which, presumably, every other system that supports truncate() passes) then io/fs.t should not be patched, and CodeBuilder 1.0 pronounced buggy. p5p-msgid: v03020902af704d320f27@[194.51.248.88]
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