This is a bug report for perl from martyn@monument.inpharmatica.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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'tell', operating on a file opened with '>>', returns 0 (after opening), and
continues to think in terms of offsets from the original start of the file.

This is is in contrast to say, 5.6.1, which thinks in terms of the "real" file
position.  Witness:

[martyn:0]$ ls -l /tmp/mime-magic
-rw-r--r--    1 martyn   martyn     145088 Aug 29 11:30 /tmp/mime-magic

[martyn:0]$ /export/home/martyn/opt/perl-5.6.1/bin/perl -le 'open $fh, ">>", $ARGV[0]; print tell $fh' /tmp/mime-magic
145088

[martyn:0]$ perl -le 'open $fh, ">>", $ARGV[0]; print tell $fh' /tmp/mime-magic 0

This is with 5.8.0, and remains true with 5.8.1-RC4 .

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by martyn at Fri Aug  1 10:31:01 GMT 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-gentoo-r5, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux monument 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 #2 tue jul 1 08:02:25 gmt 2003 i686 amd athlon(tm) processor authenticamd gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Darchname=i686-linux -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dlocincpth=  -Doptimize=-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dman3ext=3pm -Dcf_by=Gentoo -Ud_csh -Di_gdbm -Di_db -Di_ndbm'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL5 -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe',
    cppflags='-DPERL5 -DPERL5 -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/martyn
    LANG=en_GB
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/lib:/home/martyn/lib:/export/home/martyn/exec/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/lib:/home/martyn/lib:/export/home/martyn/exec/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/lib:/home/martyn/lib:/export/home/martyn/exec/lib:/usr/local/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/home/martyn/bin:/export/home/martyn/exec/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.1/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash