TONYC TPF Grant 10 report 2

[Hours]         [Activity]
2017/11/27      Monday
 2.03           #132506 netbsd in-place edit failures, reproduce, testing,
                perlbug
 2.38           #132506 re-working in-place finalization code
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 4.41

2017/11/28      Tuesday
 1.20           #132506 re-working in-place finalization code
 0.50           #132506 re-working in-place finalization code
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 1.70

2017/11/29      Wednesday
 2.25           #132506 debugging, more fixes
 0.90           #132506 debugging fork test leaving work files behind
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 3.15

2017/11/30      Thursday
 2.23           #132506 fix unlink on backup failure breakage, testing,
                update hints for netbsd
 1.95           #132506 cross platform testing
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 4.18

Which I calculate is 13.44 hours.

One ticket was worked on.

This was a continuation of the in-place editing work.

The libc on NetBSD 6, and possibly other systems, provides only a
partial implementation of renameat(), unlinkat() etc, which fails with
ENOSYS when called with unsupported parameters.

This required some reorganization of the in-place editing code to
fallback to the non-at-suffix functions, including the checks needed
before using those functions.

• TONYC TPF Grant 10 report 2 by Tony Cook