1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/t/lib/syslfs.t b/t/lib/syslfs.t
index 4d38a8e779..14a968a88c 100644
--- a/t/lib/syslfs.t
+++ b/t/lib/syslfs.t
@@ -30,13 +30,15 @@ sub explain {
     print <<EOM;
 #
 # If the lfs (large file support: large meaning larger than two gigabytes)
-# tests are skipped or fail, it may mean either that your process is not
-# allowed to write large files or that the file system you are running
-# the tests on doesn't support large files, or both.  You may also need
-# to reconfigure your kernel. (This is all very system-dependent.)
+# tests are skipped or fail, it may mean either that your process
+# (or process group) is not allowed to write large files (resource
+# limits) or that the file system you are running the tests on doesn't
+# let your user/group have large files (quota) or the filesystem simply
+# doesn't support large files.  You may even need to reconfigure your kernel.
+# (This is all very operating system and site-dependent.)
 #
 # Perl may still be able to support large files, once you have
-# such a process and such a (file) system.
+# such a process, enough quota, and such a (file) system.
 #
 EOM
 }
@@ -79,19 +81,27 @@ unless (@s == 13 &&
 # By now we better be sure that we do have sparse files:
 # if we are not, the following will hog 5 gigabytes of disk.  Ooops.
 
+$ENV{LC_ALL} = "C";
+
 sysopen(BIG, "big", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC) or
 	do { warn "sysopen failed: $!\n"; bye };
 sysseek(BIG, 5_000_000_000, SEEK_SET);
+
 # The syswrite will fail if there are are filesize limitations (process or fs).
-unless(syswrite(BIG, "big") == 3) {
-    $ENV{LC_ALL} = "C";
+my $syswrite = syswrite(BIG, "big") == 3;
+my $close   = close BIG if $syswrite;
+unless($syswrite && $close) {
+    unless ($syswrite) {
+        print "# syswrite failed: $!\n"
+    } else {
+        print "# close failed: $!\n"
+    }
     if ($! =~/File too large/) {
 	print "1..0\n# writing past 2GB failed\n";
 	explain();
-	bye();
     }
+    bye();
 }
-close BIG;
 
 @s = stat("big");