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Re: [PATCH perl@6962] 2 more vms.c fix-ups and status

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
September 1, 2000 06:45
Subject:
Re: [PATCH perl@6962] 2 more vms.c fix-ups and status
Message ID:
20000901084120.A22005@chaos.wustl.edu
> 1) Flushing an empty file returns success but sets an end-of-file error 
> condition that will cause problems the next time ferror() is called.  
> Clearing the error takes care of this.  ftmp-posix.t turned up this bug 

Great!

> because it enables autoflushing on a file that has not yet been written to.
> 
> This plus Peter's latest configure.com patch get me passing all tests except 

Do I have the absolutely latest configure.com?  I mean, there is the SCN
thing I recently added...

> st-store.t and st-retrieve.t with Compaq C 6.2-007 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2-1.  

Rats.

> The following snippet of Storable debug output suggests that the problem is 
> probably with network order, though it's too durn late in my time zone to 
> mess with that further tonight (shouldn't the retrieve detect a type of 1, 
> not 128?):

-- 
$jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
        # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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