From: Ken Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Paul Marquess wrote: > > > From: Ken Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> When I tried building with the Apple-installed zlib stuff in > >> /usr/include and /usr/lib, all tests pass just fine. > > > > Interesting. I don't think the problem is zlib related though. It > > seems a > > more fundamental. > > > > Are you running 10.2.3? > > Oh, sorry, I'm running 10.2.4. Should have mentioned that.
I don't know OS-X at all. Was there a big change between 10.2.3 and 10.2.4? > >> If the problem is with lseek(), that's bizarre. Can you be sure > >> you're > >> actually getting the correct numeric value in the file descriptor? > > > > I believe so, I got the reporter of the bug to run an instrumented > > version > > of Zlib.xs. The file descriptor value was fine. > > How odd. The only sane reason I can think of to explain that behavior > would be if some other part of the code is manipulating the file handle > (i.e. closing it) behind that code's back. Indeed, but this code works fine everywhere else. Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
