Pre-3.6 code freeze

NotFound julian.notfound at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 20:33:47 UTC 2011


Hello

> It seems we have a much greater variance in the files which are failing in
> different smoke reports on Windows than we get in any other OS.  Do you have
> any ideas as to what enabled us to get a PASS on this box as distinct from
> other Windows boxes?

The problems I've seen in my XP Home box are:

- Creating hard links: don't know it it can't in general, or because
of having a FAT filesystem. Anyway, the system can't create it, is not
parrot fault.

- File with a bizarre name: the problem is that the filename created
is not the same as seen by parrot. It may be related to the charset of
the windows console, the way perl handle it, or both. Also, maybe
being in a FAT filesystem gives a different result than if it was
NTFS. Not a parot fault. A possible solution is to create the file
from parrot, not from perl.

- A failure in socket: no idea about that.

-- 
Salu2


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