>>>>> On 29 Aug 2003 13:24:53 -0000, Martyn Pearce (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> said:

Blame analysis:

----Program----
open $fh, ">>", "/tmp/hosts" or die;

print tell $fh;

----Output of .../pwWLCBh/perl-5.7.3@16886/bin/perl----
1729
----EOF ($?='0')----
----Output of .../pjLLd1n/perl-5.7.3@16887/bin/perl----
0
----EOF ($?='0')----

Change 16887 by jhi@alpha on 2002/05/30 13:51:29

        Subject: [PATCH] Re: Linux glibc 2.2.90 issue; likely from readonly stdio mmap
        From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
        Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
        Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10205301008040.22885-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>




In this patch only the hints file is changed for linux. So in
principle one could override that hintsfile. I added

    -Dd_stdstdio=define

to the Configure args and the bug disappears and all tests pass. I
tried this only for perl@16887 because I have no idea what else needs
to be done.

I tested it on a nearly identical Gentoo as in Martyn's report.


-- 
andreas