X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.beos;h=cc9f44b14dec8763c5c083a4d66e00e4e8b78a4d;hb=abc0a0153433fe6596e1ca3a6b5572dc424d0f11;hp=8d2c10913be86823d31e0c7463b344f302ea8644;hpb=cec2c193e962b02e704b8b298f4eb37603d86225;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos index 8d2c109..cc9f44b 100644 --- a/README.beos +++ b/README.beos @@ -61,10 +61,12 @@ dogcow@isi.net The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03: - t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24 - 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 + t/op/lfs............................FAILED at test 17 + t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24 + ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs..................FAILED at test 17 + 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 The reasons for the failures are as follows: @@ -72,6 +74,15 @@ The reasons for the failures are as follows: =item * +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 * + The op/magic failures look like something funny going on with $0 and $^X that I can't now figure out: none of the generated pathnames are wrong as such, they just seem to accumulate "./" prefixes and infixes @@ -79,7 +90,7 @@ in ways that define logic. =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 *