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diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos
index 155f291..cc9f44b 100644 (file)
--- a/README.beos
+++ b/README.beos
@@ -57,23 +57,32 @@ please email me.
 Tom Spindler
 dogcow@isi.net
 
-=head2 Update 2001-12-26
+=head2 Update 2002-05-30
 
-I managed to compile one of the developer snapshots (13885 plus a few
-tweaks) leading up to (some day) Perl 5.8.0, and the following tests
-fail:
+The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
 
-        op/magic                        24-26
-        ext/POSIX/t/sigaction           13
-        ext/POSIX/t/waitpid             1
-        lib/ExtUtils/t/Installed        9-10 25-27 29-30 33-36
+ 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
 
-None of the failures look too serious:
+The reasons for the failures are as follows: 
 
 =over 4
 
 =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
@@ -81,23 +90,24 @@ in ways that define logic.
 
 =item *
 
-The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored
-if sigaction returns early.
+The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions:
+they do not always return the correct user db entries.
 
 =item *
 
-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.
+The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored
+if sigaction returns early.
 
 =item *
 
-The Installed test has some filesystem portability assumptions.
+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.
 
 =back
 
 Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the
 Developer Tools, that is the whole extent of my BeOS expertise,
-so pelase don't ask for further help in BeOS Perl problems, sorry.
+so please don't ask me for further help in BeOS Perl problems.
 
 jhi@iki.fi