On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't know why this didn't show up anywhere else, but on Solaris 8 with
> > perl5.00503, the imcc/t/syn/file.t tests that tried to load temp.pbc were
> > all failing. The reason turned out to be that the temp.imc files hadn't
> > been flushed to disk yet. Explicitly closing the files ensures
> > that they are written before we try to compile them.
>
> Strange but anyway applied. Thanks.
Actually not so strange in retrospect, but it did take me a few minutes to
figure it out. It's a manifestation of the flush-before-exec issue.
Starting with 5.6.0, perl attempts to automatically flush output buffers
under such circumstances, though after romping through
util.c:Perl_my_fflush_all() (and the supporting Configure code) you'll
likely conclude it's always safer to explicitly flush buffers yourself!
In my case, I was using 5.00503, which does whatever the underlying
OS/stdio does.
Anyway, thanks.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
