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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
November 25, 2003 14:30
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Re: bug or a feature?
Message ID:
20031125233217.136fac13.rgarciasuarez@free.fr
Torsten Foertsch wrote:
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> On Saturday 22 November 2003 13:15, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> > I'll provide a test case for linux and windows. I think there are more OSes
> > that return an error on reading a directory file. But some let it go
> > without error like Solaris. For UNIX-like systems I could check if 'cat .'
> > succeeds and skip the test in that case. But what about the others? And how
> > to catch that it is a UNIX-like system? $^O returns a string but not
> > UNIX-likeness. Is there a portable solution for that?
> >
> > Is it better to put the new test in an existing file (e.g. t/io/read.t) or
> > should I create a new test file?
> 
> Ok, here is a test. I think, it is portable.
> 
> - --- perl-5.8.2/t/io/readline.t  1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ perl-5.8.2.new/t/io/readline.t      2003-11-22 14:13:30.000000000 +0100

Thanks, applied as 21787. I moved the test to t/op/readline.t, though.

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