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Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:31:59 CST, "David R. Favor" wrote: > >Note that the write() function in AIX takes the following arguments: > > > > ssize_t write (FileDescriptor, Buffer, NBytes) > > int FileDescriptor; > > const void *Buffer; > > size_t NBytes; > > > > > >Note the difference in size between size_t and Off_t. > > This is a bug in Perl, pure and simple. We should be using the > right type for the "length" parameter. > > Please try this. It isn't quite the right fix, because it really > needs to be Size_t, and the return value from the write() a SSize_t, > but this should suffice to test it. Good news! That worked! Whew... Also I got wild and tried to rebuild with -Duse64bits and without -Duse5005threads. Here is what I found. 1) Threads won't compile unless I add the following to perl.exp PL_thr_key Perl_Gthr_key_ptr 2) -Duse64bits never runs the alternative file system tests... lib/syslfs...........skipping test on this platform op/lfs...............skipping test on this platform Maybe there is some other switch I need to build large file system support. Anyway, let me know about these last two items. And thanks for figuring out the SSize_t problem. Hopefully RC3 will run without a hitch!