Re: Debian Sparc Perl problem
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 08:57, Ian Cass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a problem here with some Perl & I don't know if it's Debian or not.
> I can only replicate it on Debian Sparc, but I have no other Linux/Sparc to
> test it on. The code works perfectly on Debian i386 & OpenBSD i386.
>
> I've got an app that passes messages to another app on the same machine
> using tcp sockets. Using IO::Socket::INET, Blocking reads do not work if I
> set a Timeout. Any reads (either <$socket> or $socket->getline) will return
> a 'Resource temporarily unavailable' like you'd get if you had no data to
> read when you're using non blocking IO (EAGAIN). If I remove the Timeout
> parameter, it works as expected.
This problem is specific to Debian. Aurora SPARC Linux gives the
expected output:
[root@fry root]# perl server.pl
Accepted a new client
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Read yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
[root@fry root]# perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sparc-linux
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to
the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home
Page.
[root@fry root]# uname -a
Linux fry.rdu.redhat.com 2.4.18-0.96sparc #1 Fri Jun 7 04:07:21 EDT 2002
sparc64 unknown
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