Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apollo:6132 comp.lang.perl:2069
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!mike
From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl failed on regression test, pl 27
Keywords: perl, op.stat
Message-ID: <1758@tuvie>
Date: 13 Aug 90 18:41:59 GMT
References: <1756@tuvie> <1990Aug13.144108.1109@ccs.carleton.ca>
Reply-To: mike@tuvie.UUCP (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Followup-To: comp.sys.apollo
Organization: Technical University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
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In article <1990Aug13.144108.1109@ccs.carleton.ca> holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) writes:
|>In article <1756@tuvie> mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
|>>I just made perl 3.0, patchlevel 27 on an Apollo running DomainOS
|>>sr10.2 (cc 6.6). It all worked ok, but during the regression tests, op.stat
|>>failed:
|>>1..56
|>>not ok 1
|>>not ok 2
|>>ok 3
|>>ok 4
|>>#4      :650542356: != :650542358:
|>>ok 5
|>>
|>>-- since Apollos do have a rather unusual filesystem, this could be nothing to
|>>worry about, but on the other hand, you never know...
|>>
|>>Any explanations?
|>
|>I didn't worry about it -- its just a check of creation time versus last modification
|>time of a newly created file.  I don't think there is any reason that they should
|>necessarily be the same.

Test 2 does so. But test 1 checks for the number of links to a file. It
_is_ rather unusual that a newly created file should have more then one
link to it.

				bye,
					mike
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