Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID: <38AC5494.2AF722B8@ece.gatech.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:05:40 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: soren AT wonderstorm DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Perl ported to Cygwin bug report (-w)
References: <200002171659 DOT LAA17555 AT fb02 DOT eng00 DOT mindspring DOT net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Soren,
  I don't know if this will fix your problem, but you need to update to NT4 sp6a.
Service Pack 6 broke any number of programs due to some weird networking/socket bug,
but I don't remember all the details.

  Other than setting ntea (or ntsec) I don't remember why -w would fail. It's
possible something got fixed between the perl5.005_03 and perl5.005_62 releases for
cygwin-b20, because I don't see this behavior. I'd recommend downloading and
installing the later version if you can -- it's at http://cygutils.netpedia.net/.
OTOH, if you update to the more recent cygwin snapshots, then the latest precompiled
perl is perl5.5.640 (aka perl5.6 beta0), also available at cygutils.

--Chuck

Soren Andersen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using a Perl that's been ported to Cygwin, I am sure I remember that
> the prebuilt Win32 (Cygwin) binary i installed was pointed-to from
> Cygwin's site or an associated site list of port projects. sorry  don't have the
> specific URL.
>
> In this Perl, the -w (writable yes|no) file test operator is broken -- it always
> returns null on any file. [As a consequence I cannot run the important Perl
> module CPAN.pm to extend Perl conveniently). I am running NT4 sp6.
>
> If anyone knows anything about this I'd appreciate hearing from them.
>
>      soren andersen
>
> --
> Want to unsubscribe from this list?
> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com