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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-03-11 03:36:32 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-03-11 03:36:32 +0000
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Re: [PATCH] for broken /proc/curproc/file on FreeBSD
From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:17:50 +0000 Message-ID: <20020310181749.GC317@Bagpuss.unfortu.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] for broken /proc/curproc/file on FreeBSD From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:53:34 -0800 Message-ID: <eX9i8gzkg26G092yn@efn.org> (and reenable the feature in freebsd, and move the freebsd pr url to perl.c) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15160
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@@ -2566,19 +2566,6 @@ known but the current suspect is the F<ixemul> library.
Don't panic. Read INSTALL 'make test' section instead.
-=head2 FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 fail lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t
-
-F<lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t> tests that "`` works" by running a a perl 1
-liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. It is known to be
-failing on FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5, but only when run as part of make test.
-This seems to be a kernel problem rather than perl - reading the symlink
-F</proc/curproc/file> returns "unknown" rather than the path to perl, and a
-kernel debugger reveals that variable C<numfullpathfail2> in
-F</usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c> is being incremented whenever
-F</proc/curproc/file> fails to return the perl executable's path.
-[If you find that if fails on other versions of FreeBSD, please use perlbug
-to report them to us. If you are able to fix the bug, even better.]
-
=head2 HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
If perl is configured with -Duse64bitall, the successful result of the