Nicholas Clark <nick@[...].net>  writes:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:24:11PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Arthur Bergman wrote:
> 
> > > 2) libs/warning
> > > error with regard to files opened in a certain mode, should we skip this test since we 
know it is failing?
> >
> > I never understood why are we still getting this error-- I thought
> > it was bound to broken/different implementation of *stdio* in certain
> > platforms, and now in the shiny new era of perlio...?  Nick?
> 
> You were meaning Nick I-S, but I'll express an opinion
> 
> And it transpires that STDOUT is read/write on FreeBSD (and maybe some other
> places) so the code as written is an unintended bit of non-portability.

I recall being in two minds about this - one (which I think is what
we have now) is to tag STD* as being open in the expected mode.

If that is indeed what I implemented I don't understand why a -Duseperlio
build fails those tests.

The other being to use fcntl() to find out what mode they actually are
open in and make perlio report the truth.

--
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/