Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews fails on RS/6000 (relaynews) Message-ID: <.$3Ghrj-1@cs.psu.edu> Date: 30 Apr 91 13:50:24 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: /home/staff/flee/.organization Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu >to test things with "make r" the relaynews test failed. >In particular, errlog contained: >./relaynews: error writing `/dev/null', probably the disk filled (Invalid argument) This is harmless. relaynews tries to fsync() output files for reliability. The regression test uses /dev/null for batch files. AIX doesn't let you fsync() a file descriptor that isn't open to a real file (it returns -1 and EBADF). There's a comment in notebook/problems about this, referring to AIX/370. It looks like all versions of AIX will refuse to fsync() non-files. Mach (on the NeXTs) also has this problem. -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu