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From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: compiling perl patch 10 on HPUX
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.141843.5299@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 19 Jun 91 14:18:43 GMT
References: <sherman.677300831@foster>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <sherman.677300831@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:

   | For those who have HPUX on their HP 9000/3xx or 9000/7xx, here is
   | what I did to get perl to pass its tests:
   | 
   | HP 9000/300:
   |   o  Don't test perl over nfs mounts, otherwise op/read will fail test 3. 

Ah, the well-known lseek bug over NFS... ;-)
HP has a patch for this one, for both the series 300/400 and series 800.
I  don't  know the patch-id (they never told me), but here's part of the
README file that came with the patch and might be helpful to  track  the
right patch.

______________________________________________________________________________
	This patch to libnfs.a fixes two known NFS client
	problems in the 7.0 release of HP-UX:

	1)  If the file offset is explicitly set to beyond the end of
	    an NFS file, for instance, through lseek(), then subsequent
	    read() operations on that file will not return 0 to indicate
	    an end-of-file condition, but will rather return garbage data.

	2)  If file size ulimit is reached when extending or writing an
	    NFS file, the system will loop forever instead of returning
	    an EFBIG error.
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			hope this helps,
						--[ Edwin ]--
-- 
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