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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 4, 2001 21:09
Subject:
Re: Report /pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-5.7.1
Message ID:
20010704230926.K19034@chaos.wustl.edu
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:45:00PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
> In article <20010703092027.F19034@chaos.wustl.edu>,
> 	Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:03:04PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> >> On Tue 03 Jul 2001 15:44, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote:
> >> > > Failures:
> >> > > 
> >> > > HP-UX 11.00  stdio/perlio     -Uuseperlio
> >> > > HP-UX 11.00  stdio/perlio     -DDEBUGGING -Uuseperlio
> >> > > HP-UX 11.00  stdio/perlio     -Duseperlio
> >> > > HP-UX 11.00  stdio/perlio     -DDEBUGGING -Duseperlio
> >> > >     ext/Storable/t/lock................FAILED at test 3
> >> > 
> >> > What the ... 11060 did change Storable (1.0.12 update from Raphael,
> >> > but wasn't the previous smoke report from 11061 and it was all oks for
> >> > the vanilla config?)
> >> 
> >> It was for ext/Storable tests for sure. 10.20 still had the op/write fail, but
> >> I tackled that one.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Another possibility is that I broke the fcntl probe somehow?
> > (Change #11093, I added an alarm() to the test because I saw
> > fcntl(..., F_SETLK, ...) to hang...)
> > 
> 
> to be honest, that sounds like a dubious change anyways since it doing 
> anything at all depends on the sigaction settings. a F_SETLK should only
> hang if the file is really locked (or some weird not per related failures
> like doing the test over nfs and not being able to reach the remote lockd)
> on the sigaction settings. 
> 
> I suspect it is symptom fixing instead of bug fixing.

I'm not going to be able to fix the NFS code of the particular UNIX
implementation.

-- 
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