From belg4mit@mit.edu

Created by belg4mit@mit.edu

This is a bug report for perl from belg4mit@​mit.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.

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I was testing IO​::Pager for cross-platform usability and ran
into some abnormal behavior that I'm rather certain is attributable
to perl itself. The module works fine on the 2 platforms I developed
it on, but everywhere else exhbits various oddities layed out below.
AFAIK I did not write perl 5.8 specific code. This chart maps out
results for tests 3 and 4 of IO​::Pager, and there seems to be a
strong correlation between version, IO library, and behavior.

Note​: make test will skip tests 3 and 4, this is why the README
and skip messages say to run perl -Mblib t.pl They can also be
run as perl -Mblib t/3.pl and perl -Mblib t/4.pl

build ver IO platform test 3 4

belg4mit 5.8.0 perlio solaris OK OK
ActvSt 806 5.8.0 perlio solaris OK D
hypothesis 5.8.0 stdio solaris OK D
belg4mit 5.8.0 perlio RH9 OK OK
broquaint 5.8.0 stdio RH7.3 A OK
ActvSt 806 5.8.0 perlio win98 C OK
Indigo 5.8.0 perlio win98 C OK
hypothesis 5.6.1 perlio solaris A B
athena 5.6.1 stdio solaris A B
perl5 5.6.0 stdio solaris A B
broquaint 5.6 stdio RH7.3 A OK
Indigo 5.6.1 stdio win98 A OK

A Infinite loop with no output
B Pager runs but displays nothing
C Pager runs but term control not regained when it exits
D t/4.t doesn't run from t.pl but runs fine manually

Also, I realize that the signal handler setting in 3.t should be
outside of the loop, and strace will pick up on this, but it does
not affect the results if it is moved outside of while.

PS> Not exactly pertinent to the bug report, but if anybody has
  a better idea how to handle tests 3 and 4 under Test​::Harness
  I'd love to hear it.

Happy bug squashing!

Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high

This perlbug was built using Perl v5.8.0 - Fri Aug  9 06:33:44 EDT 2002
It is being executed now by  Perl v5.8.0 - Fri Aug  9 06:01:04 EDT 2002.

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by belg4mit at Fri Aug  9 06:01:04 EDT 2002.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.9-31, archname=i686-linux-64int
    uname='linux calloway.mit.edu 2.4.9-31 #1 tue feb 26 07:11:02 est 2002 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/mit/belg4mit'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.2.4'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /mit/belg4mit/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux-64int
    /mit/belg4mit/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /mit/belg4mit/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-64int
    /mit/belg4mit/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /mit/belg4mit/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/mit/belg4mit
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/athena/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/mit/belg4mit/Private:/mit/belg4mit/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/usr/athena/bin:/usr/athena/etc:/bin/athena:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/mit/sipb/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/gnu/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/games/arch/i386_linux24/bin:/mit/consult/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/outland/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/graphics/arch/i386_linux24/bin:/mit/infoagents/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/windowmanagers/arch/i386_rh9/bin:/mit/java/arch/i386_linux24/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/athena/tcsh

From @jkeenan

On Fri Jul 18 12​:27​:32 2003, belg4mit@​mit.edu wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from belg4mit@​mit.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
I was testing IO​::Pager for cross-platform usability and ran
into some abnormal behavior that I'm rather certain is attributable
to perl itself. The module works fine on the 2 platforms I developed
it on, but everywhere else exhbits various oddities layed out below.
AFAIK I did not write perl 5.8 specific code. This chart maps out
results for tests 3 and 4 of IO​::Pager, and there seems to be a
strong correlation between version, IO library, and behavior.

Note​: make test will skip tests 3 and 4, this is why the README
and skip messages say to run perl -Mblib t.pl They can also be
run as perl -Mblib t/3.pl and perl -Mblib t/4.pl

build ver IO platform test 3 4

belg4mit 5.8.0 perlio solaris OK OK
ActvSt 806 5.8.0 perlio solaris OK D
hypothesis 5.8.0 stdio solaris OK D
belg4mit 5.8.0 perlio RH9 OK OK
broquaint 5.8.0 stdio RH7.3 A OK
ActvSt 806 5.8.0 perlio win98 C OK
Indigo 5.8.0 perlio win98 C OK
hypothesis 5.6.1 perlio solaris A B
athena 5.6.1 stdio solaris A B
perl5 5.6.0 stdio solaris A B
broquaint 5.6 stdio RH7.3 A OK
Indigo 5.6.1 stdio win98 A OK

A Infinite loop with no output
B Pager runs but displays nothing
C Pager runs but term control not regained when it exits
D t/4.t doesn't run from t.pl but runs fine manually

Also, I realize that the signal handler setting in 3.t should be
outside of the loop, and strace will pick up on this, but it does
not affect the results if it is moved outside of while.

PS> Not exactly pertinent to the bug report, but if anybody has
a better idea how to handle tests 3 and 4 under Test​::Harness
I'd love to hear it.

Happy bug squashing!

belg4mit​:

I came across this older ticket this morning and wondered whether you
were ever able to resolve the problems described. I note that IO​::Pager
is passing all its tests on Perl 5.18.0
(http​://cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Pager.html.)

Please let us know if you still need assistance with this.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @Leont

On Mon May 27 05​:50​:37 2013, jkeenan wrote​:

I came across this older ticket this morning and wondered whether you
were ever able to resolve the problems described. I note that IO​::Pager
is passing all its tests on Perl 5.18.0
(http​://cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Pager.html.)

The extended tests work for me, both with and without PERLIO=​:stdio.

Leon

From @jkeenan

On Mon May 27 10​:26​:00 2013, LeonT wrote​:

On Mon May 27 05​:50​:37 2013, jkeenan wrote​:

I came across this older ticket this morning and wondered whether you
were ever able to resolve the problems described. I note that IO​::Pager
is passing all its tests on Perl 5.18.0
(http​://cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Pager.html.)

The extended tests work for me, both with and without PERLIO=​:stdio.

Leon

Thanks for looking into this. I'll take that as "ticket closable" and
will take the ticket for the purpose of closing it in seven days unless
we get good arguments to the contrary.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

From @jkeenan

On Mon May 27 16​:10​:40 2013, jkeenan wrote​:

On Mon May 27 10​:26​:00 2013, LeonT wrote​:

On Mon May 27 05​:50​:37 2013, jkeenan wrote​:

I came across this older ticket this morning and wondered whether you
were ever able to resolve the problems described. I note that
IO​::Pager
is passing all its tests on Perl 5.18.0
(http​://cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Pager.html.)

The extended tests work for me, both with and without PERLIO=​:stdio.

Leon

Thanks for looking into this. I'll take that as "ticket closable" and
will take the ticket for the purpose of closing it in seven days unless
we get good arguments to the contrary.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

Closing as per schedule. Thank you very much.

@jkeenan - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'