Subject: Cygwin /dev/null problem or perl 5.8.0 problem? (was: Re: autom4te and perl 5.8.0)
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Patrick Welche <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:31:11 +0200

Hallo Patrick,

Am Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2002 um 17:07 schriebst du:

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:28:23AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>> 
>> To make sure that it's not the fault of Autoconf, can you try
>> this reduced test case?

use IO::File;
my $out = new IO::File;
$out->open("/dev/null", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666);

> Thank you for the test case! Sure enough, it crashes with just the
> above..

Which system are you on?

$ ./test.pl
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm on cygwin (NT4).
Can someone please test it with perl 5.6.1 on Cygwin?  I haven't
installed it anymore...

Gerrit
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