>>>>> "BR" == Bill Ricker <[email protected]> writes:
>> i am getting an error report on the new file::slurp on netbsd. it is in >> error.t so if you can run that test and tell me what is happening, it >> would be great. BR> If no one has one ready, you can boot a temporary with no install via BR> the Live CD moot point already. turns out it wasn't an OS or a perl version issue. one of the oddest bugs (or test failure) i have ever seen before. turns out the test runs fine as a regular user but fails when run as root! some of the cpan testers were doing installs of file::slurp as root and they saw the errors but others running as a regular user didn't. the test was the one in error.t that forces rename to fail. i went over this in the talk. it created a dir with a file in it and then changed the dir permissions to a-x so the file couldn't be renamed. but guess what? root ignores those permissions and so it succeeds in renaming. which means the test failed (success means rename failed!). i fixed it by rewriting the test to use the same override code i use to force sysread/syswrite to fail. root can't overcome a broken core function. so look for slurp .15 going up asap. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
