Tom Spindler
dogcow@isi.net
-=head2 Update 2002-03-02
+=head2 Update 2002-05-25
-The following tests fail on pre-5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.0:
+The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
- op/magic 24-26
- ext/POSIX/t/sigaction 13
- ext/POSIX/t/waitpid 1
- lib/ExtUtils/t/Installed 9-10 25-27 29-30 33-36
+ 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
+ lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED at test 39
-None of the failures look too serious:
+The reasons for the failures are as follows:
=over 4
=item *
+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.
+
+=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
=item *
+The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions of Perl:
+they do not always return the correct user db entries.
+
+=item *
+
The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored
if sigaction returns early.
=item *
-The Installed test has some filesystem portability assumptions.
+The Tie/File/t/16_handle seems to indicate some brokenness
+(non-UNIXness) in how BeOS handles pipes.
=back
=back
+=head2 BeOS
+
+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
+ lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED at test 39
+
+See L<perlbeos> (README.beos) for more details.
+
=head2 ext/threads/t/libc
If this test fails, it indicates that your libc (C library) is not