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| -rw-r--r-- | hints/solaris_2.sh | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 9 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/hints/solaris_2.sh b/hints/solaris_2.sh index 5a8cbfab8b..65f8158ff0 100644 --- a/hints/solaris_2.sh +++ b/hints/solaris_2.sh @@ -479,6 +479,29 @@ case "$uselongdouble" in ;; esac +case "$fflushNULL" in +"$define"|true|[yY]*) + # allow them to force it the other way + ;; +*) + # All versions of Solaris appear to have a stdio bug that improperly + # flushes the input end of pipes. So we avoid the autoflush on + # fork/system/exec support for now. :-( See the test case in: + # http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-03/msg00373.html + # XXX this needs a Configure test so that more such platforms can be + # caught automatically. + fflushNULL=undef + fflushall=undef + cat >&4 <<EOM + +*** Solaris has a bug that affects input pipes, and so I have disabled +*** support for automatic flushing on fork/system/exec. If you want +*** automatic flushing anyway, rerun Configure again with -DfflushNULL. + +EOM + ;; +esac + rm -f try.c try.o try # keep that leading tab ccisworkshop='' diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 8e62de0bf7..408b48c372 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0 =head1 DESCRIPTION -This is an unsupported alpha release, meant for intrepid Perl -developers only. The included sources may not even build correctly on -some platforms. Subscribing to perl5-porters is the best way to -monitor and contribute to the progress of development releases (see -http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perl5-porters.html for info). - This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and this one. =head1 Incompatible Changes @@ -986,6 +980,9 @@ was attempted. This mostly eliminates confusing buffering mishaps suffered by users unaware of how Perl internally handles I/O. +This is not supported on some platforms like Solaris where a suitably +correct implementation of fflush(NULL) isn't available. + =head2 Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations Constructs such as C<< open(<FH>) >> and C<< close(<FH>) >> |