Tom Spindler
dogcow@isi.net
-=head2 Update 2002-05-25
+=head2 Update 2002-05-30
The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3
ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
- lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED at test 39
The reasons for the failures are as follows:
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-The op/lfs and Fcntl/t/syslfs seem to hit a real bug: though we can
-seek around past the 2GB limit, reading from there doesn't work.
-Therefore, please don't try doing large files in BeOS with Perl.
+The t/op/lfs and ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs failures indicate that the
+LFS (large file support, files larger than 2 gigabytes) doesn't
+work from Perl (BeFS itself is well capable of supporting large
+files). What fails is that trying to position the file pointer
+past 2 gigabytes doesn't work right, the position gets truncated
+to its lower 32 bits.
=item *
=item *
-The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions of Perl:
+The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions:
they do not always return the correct user db entries.
=item *
processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set
errno to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
-=item *
-
-The Tie/File/t/16_handle seems to indicate some brokenness
-(non-UNIXness) in how BeOS handles pipes.
-
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Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the