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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:14:38AM -0000, Hiroshi Kunimatsu wrote:
> But, individual tests seems to be ok;
>
> $ cd t
> $ export PERL_CORE=1
> $ ./perl -I../lib ../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_poll.t
> 1..10
> ok 1
> ok 2
> ok 3
Test #3 checks if IO::Poll->poll is working on STDOUT. When the test
is run as "make test" STDOUT is attached to a pipe. When run individually
as above STDOUT is not piped. This likely effected the test.
If you run:
./perl -I../lib ../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_poll.t | cat
then STDOUT will be to a pipe and the test will probably fail.
> I have never heard the word 'poll'.
poll() is a variation on select(). You use it with non-blocking IO to
check if there's been any activity on a filehandle. Its kind of obscure.
From the Linux poll(2) man page:
NAME
poll - wait for some event on a file descriptor
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/poll.h>
int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout);
> Is there any way to install Perl
Sure, you can just ignore the failure and install it. Just be aware that
IO::Poll will have problems dealing with STDOUT when its piped. Its not a
critical problem, though I'm sure other people here would like to work with
you to fix it.
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