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-rw-r--r--README.beos12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos
index 155f291d97..b931add73d 100644
--- a/README.beos
+++ b/README.beos
@@ -57,11 +57,9 @@ please email me.
Tom Spindler
dogcow@isi.net
-=head2 Update 2001-12-26
+=head2 Update 2002-03-02
-I managed to compile one of the developer snapshots (13885 plus a few
-tweaks) leading up to (some day) Perl 5.8.0, and the following tests
-fail:
+The following tests fail on pre-5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.0:
op/magic 24-26
ext/POSIX/t/sigaction 13
@@ -87,8 +85,8 @@ if sigaction returns early.
=item *
The waitpid failure means that after there are no more child
-processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set errno
-to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
+processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set
+errno to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
=item *
@@ -98,6 +96,6 @@ The Installed test has some filesystem portability assumptions.
Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the
Developer Tools, that is the whole extent of my BeOS expertise,
-so pelase don't ask for further help in BeOS Perl problems, sorry.
+so please don't ask me for further help in BeOS Perl problems.
jhi@iki.fi