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I have a FreeBSD 8.1 jailed host that uses the ZFS filesystem. All
tests for perl (I've tried both blead and 5.12.2) pass apart from
ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t.
Only one test fails:
ok 25 - calling pathconf("/tmp", _PC_NO_TRUNC)
not ok 26 - checking that the returned value is defined (it isn't)
or that errno is clear (it isn't, it's Invalid argument)
# Failed test ' checking that the returned value is defined
# (it isn't) or that errno is clear (it isn't, it's Invalid argument)'
# at t/sysconf.t line 63.
I'm not filing this as a bug report yet because I don't know if I see
this failure because of a failure in the assumptions perl's test suite
makes or a quirk of the jailed host. I thought I should mention this
here in case anyone else has seen something similar.
I have built various versions of perl on standard FreeBSD 8.1
installations without incident. However, I note that the jailed host
runs using one filesystem on / as ZFS whereas I usually use UFS2.
I wonder if using /tmp under ZFS causes this test failure. I also
wonder if anyone can suggest anything I should try to investigate this
problem further, possibly leading to a bug report.
Thanks,
Tom
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