Re: gitweb on OpenBSD (-T not supported on filesystems...)

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2006, 15:07 UTC
Message-ID: <864pv6sfag.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <eej5qa$i3o$1@sea.gmane.org>

>>>>> "Jakub" == Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

Jakub> I thought that OpenBSD has perhaps distributed some old Perl version that Jakub> doesn't have -X tests (including -T/-B) on filehandles.

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>> When I try the original -T $fd I get: 
>> 
>> Software error:
>> -T and -B not implemented on filehandles at /var/www/htdocs/git/gitweb.cgi  
>> line 1598.

Jakub> So this means that Perl implementation in OpenBSD is flawed.

No, see "perldoc perldiag":

       "-T" and "-B" not implemented on filehandles
           (F) Perl can't peek at the stdio buffer of filehandles when it
           doesn't know about your kind of stdio.  You'll have to use a file-
           name instead.

So the problem is that OpenBSD has a stdio that is not what the Perl authors anticipated, because it requires peeking behind official interfaces. Perl isn't flawed. :)

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