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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:58:04 -0800
From: Jim Minton <minton1@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: Perlbug ID 19991102.001
>Last year, you reported:
>
>We are seening a problem with perl-5.005.02 on AIX 4.2.1. We run the
> following
> perl script to list the contents of a directory.
>
> file name: xxxx
> contents:
> >#!/usr/local/bin/perl
> >
> >
> >
> > $NewDir =3D '/home/minton/NameServer/4v1/Tools/NSDE/new';
> > print "\nPathName: $NewDir\n";
> > undef @NewFiles;
> > if ( ! opendir(DIRHANDLE, "$NewDir") )
> > {
> > die " >> Can't open directory '$NewDir'.\n";
> > }
> >
> ># @NewFiles =3D grep(!/^\.|makefile/, readdir(DIRHANDLE));
> > @NewFiles =3D readdir(DIRHANDLE);
> >
> > closedir ( DIRHANDLE );
> >
> >
> > print "\nNF=3D'@NewFiles'\n";
>
>
> We get the following results:
>
> >$ls -l /home/minton/NameServer/4v21/Tools/NSDE/new
> >total 70
> >drwxrws--- 2 minton hpss 1024 Nov 01 17:48 ./
> >drwxrws--- 3 minton hpss 1024 Nov 01 17:48 ../
> >-rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 234447 Oct 29 13:15 nsde.c
> >-rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 38366 Oct 29 13:15 nsdestuff.h
> >
> >$xxxx
> >
> >PathName: /home/minton/NameServer/4v21/Tools/NSDE/new
> >NF=3D'. .. nsde.c nsdest'
>
> It appears that part of the array that contains the directory contents
> is
> truncated ("nsdest" instead of "nsdestuff.h"). Is this a known problem?
> Is there a patch level that fixes this problem.
>
>Do you still see this problem, has it been fixed in a newer version of
>perl, or did you find the cause? Should this bug remain open?
Yes, I still see this problem, but only on one machine! There is a
machine in Houston that has this problem 'big time'. Here is some
very recent evidence of the problem--
/home/minton/NameServer/4v1/Tools/NSDE/new[4]ls -l
total 2
drwxrws--- 2 minton hpss 1024 Dec 15 10:18 ./
drwxrws--- 3 minton hpss 1024 Jun 09 2000 ../
- -rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 0 Dec 15 10:44 abcdefghij
- -rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 0 Dec 15 10:44 jihgfedcba
- -rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 0 Dec 15 10:44 poiuytrewq
- -rw-rw---- 1 minton hpss 0 Dec 15 10:44 qwertyuiop
/home/minton/NameServer/4v1/Tools/NSDE/new[5]xxxx
PathName: /home/minton/NameServer/4v1/Tools/NSDE/new
NF=3D'. .. abcdefghij@=B1jihgfedcba
T=A541qwertyuiopz=B5poiuytrewq |=FD=C36 jihg=
qwertyuiopz=B5poiuytrewq |=FD=C36abcdefghij@=B1jihgfedcba
T=A541qwertyuiopz=B5poiuytrewq |=FD=C3=
6
poiuytrewq'
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