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From: mleiber@hpwad.HP.COM (#Michael Leiber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PL36: Is this a bug ???
Message-ID: <14380001@hpwad.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 10:03:53 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Waldbronn, Germany
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Hi,

I just applied patches 29 thru 36 to perl(1) and ran the regression tests.
It looks as though there's a bug, as reported by t/op.read when running
that test on an nfs mounted file. 

Here's the result:

----snip--------------------------------------------------------------snip----
>perl op.read
1..4
ok 1
ok 2
not ok 3
not ok 4
----snip--------------------------------------------------------------snip----


Here's the context:

both machines are running under HP-UX 7.0

nfs server:

HP-UX hpwadrd 7.0 B 9000/370 hpwadrd

nfs client:

HP-UX hpwadlk 7.0 B 9000/360 hpwadlk

checklist:
# logical (nfs) file systems
hpwadrd:/usr/local /usr/local nfs defaults 0 0

the tests reside in </usr/local/src/perl/pl36/t>

When running the test on the server machine, it works fine, but running
it on the client fails.

I think the problem has to be searched within seek/read on unix rather
than in perl, but I just wanted to report that problem. Unfortunately
I didn't have the time right know to track it down, so if someone else ...

to Larry: perl's a really incredible tool, keep on working and enhancing
	  it. I'm also happy to see people working on MeSsy-DOS ports, 
	  that makes this beasty machine a bit more comfortable. Great stuff !

			regards   michael

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