On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:36:13PM -0000, Andy Hassall wrote:
> The two failed tests aren't Oracle tests, but are checking how exit codes
> are handled on your OS:
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> is system("exit 1;"), 1<<8, 'system exit 1 should return 256';
> is system("exit 0;"), 0, 'system exit 0 should return 0';
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> All the Oracle tests run and pass, so there's nothing apparently wrong on
> the Oracle side, but those above fail.
They fail because Oracle has hijacked the SIGCHLD signal handler.
Tim.
> According to the docs for "system":
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> "Return value of -1 indicates a failure to start the program or an error of
> the wait(2) system call (inspect $! for the reason)."
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> What output do you get if you run the following:
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> perl -e 'system("exit 1;"); print "$? $!\n"'
> perl -e 'system("exit 0;"); print "$? $!\n"'
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> From: Weaver John Cairns CONT NSSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 23 January 2007 18:16
> To: '[email protected]'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: DBD::Oracle make test problem
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> I am having problems with DBD::Oracle install any help would be appreciated.
> I am running Solaris10 (1/06 Sparc) and Oracle 10g.
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> John Weaver
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> Please look at my log file attached
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