[tapx-dev] IPC::Open3 strangeness on Mac OS: ring any bells?

Andy Armstrong andy at hexten.net
Fri Aug 17 21:12:02 BST 2007


On 17 Aug 2007, at 20:01, Steve Peters wrote:
>> Before I investigate further does that ring any bells with anyone?
>
> I do not know of any specific problem, although the BSDs and their  
> derivitives
> (such as Mac OS X or Cygwin) have had funky issues with IPC in the  
> past.
> Unfortunately, the $! isn't much help since EBADF is pretty  
> standard throughout
> the Perl core.

I tried it on FreeBSD and Cygwin - both fine. Windows: fine. Linux:  
fine :)

I also attempted to get it down to a simple case with no success. I  
can do the same sequence of open3(), read, waitpid thousands of times  
without any warnings.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net



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