BeOS failure merge, noticed by Daniel Berger.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17496

diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos
index 8d2c109..cc9f44b 100644 (file)
--- 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 *

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 92351d9..1415d52 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -3074,6 +3074,8 @@ The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
 
  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