marc@athena.mit.edu (10/25/90)
We're running a slightly hacked ultrix 3.1 here, and when I built
pl37, I ran into problems with op.exec test 4 failing. The problem
seemed to be with waitpid() never changing its argument to reflect the
status of the program which exited. I don't know where waitpid()
comes from, but it may be the source of op.exec 4 losing on other
machines. The workaround is to edit config.sh to undef d_waitpid.
Ultrix 4.0 doesn't seem to have this problem, from what I've been
observing on this list.
There also seems to be a bug in the test stuff. The test script, when
run individually, printed
1..8
ok 1
not ok 1
ok 2
not ok 2
ok 3
not ok 3
not ok 4
t/TEST claimed test 4 failed. This is certainly true, but tests 1,2,3
failed, too, and the test script didn't seem to notice. This is pl37
also.
Marc