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diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos
index d13c68c..cc9f44b 100644 (file)
--- a/README.beos
+++ b/README.beos
@@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ dogcow@isi.net
 
 The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
 
-  t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24
-  ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3
-  ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
-  ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
-  lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED test 39
+ t/op/lfs............................FAILED at test 17
+ t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24
+ ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs..................FAILED at test 17
+ ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3
+ ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
+ ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
 
 The reasons for the failures are as follows: 
 
@@ -73,6 +74,15 @@ The reasons for the failures are as follows:
 
 =item *
 
+The t/op/lfs and ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs failures indicate that the
+LFS (large file support, files larger than 2 gigabytes) doesn't
+work from Perl (BeFS itself is well capable of supporting large
+files).  What fails is that trying to position the file pointer
+past 2 gigabytes doesn't work right, the position gets truncated
+to its lower 32 bits.
+
+=item *
+
 The op/magic failures look like something funny going on with $0 and
 $^X that I can't now figure out: none of the generated pathnames are
 wrong as such, they just seem to accumulate "./" prefixes and infixes
@@ -80,7 +90,7 @@ in ways that define logic.
 
 =item *
 
-The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions of Perl:
+The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions:
 they do not always return the correct user db entries.
 
 =item *
@@ -94,10 +104,6 @@ The waitpid failure means that after there are no more child
 processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set
 errno to ECHILD).  In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
 
-=item *
-
-The reason for Tie::File 16_handle #39 is not known.
-
 =back
 
 Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the