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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:52:03 +0200
From: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Cc: "'Perl 5 Porters'" <perl5-porters AT perl DOT org>
Subject: Re: Win2k + djgpp
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
[...]
> There's a known problem with file descriptors perl-spawned
> programs (present in 5.6.0, 5.6.1 and 5.7.2), which prevents
> autoconf > 2.50 from functioning under DJGPP.  I've yet to find
> either cause or solution (Laszlo, you have any idea?).  A test
> case is attached - run normally, foo.exe will allocated
> FDs 5 - 19 for the testfiles; if run from the perl script, it
> gets FDs 3 - 17 (and 3 and 4 are not supposed to be used, IIRC).
> It _might_ be something else though (perhaps another Win2K quirk).

Perl starts with closing stdprn and stdaux (#ifdef MSDOS). Should it
leave them open?

Laszlo


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