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From: heft@husc2.harvard.edu (Tom Heft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: 3.0.44 fails io.fs on Ultrix 4.1
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.141330.21@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 19:13:29 GMT
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In article <279DD5D9.14093@orion.oac.uci.edu> Mike Iglesias <iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu> writes:
>In article <5445@husc6.harvard.edu> heft@husc2.harvard.edu (Tom Heft) writes:
>>
>>PERL version 3.0 patchlevel 44 fails the io.fs test 18 with the following
>>error:
>>	not ok 18 664650167 664650167
>>
>>This is on a DECsystem 5400 running Ultrix 4.1.  Has anyone else run
>>into this problem?
>
>If the disk you're running the test on is NFS mounted, you will see
>this error.  My guess is that the test (which modifies the file
>in some way that escapes me now) is failing because the change to
>the file has not propagated it's way back to the NFS client (your
>DECstation) by the time perl checks to see if the modification has
>taken place.  
>
>I've run the tests (perl pl 41) on a local disk on my DECstation and it 
>works fine.
>

Yup, that was it.  I moved both the new "perl" and "io.fs" to a local
directory and it worked fine.  Thanks.

	- Tom Heft
	  heft@husc9.harvard.edu