The problem appears to have been resolved, either in development or in a
subsequent FreeBSD 6.x release:
2) eyrie:~/perl/poco-client-http% make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_request.................ok
t/02_keepalive...............ok
t/03_head_filter.............ok
t/04_chunk_filter............ok
t/05_request.................ok
t/06_factory.................ok
t/07_proxy...................ok
t/08_discard.................ok
t/09_bad_scheme..............ok
t/10_shutdown................ok
t/11_cancel..................ok
t/12_pod.....................ok
t/13_pod_coverage............skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required
for testing POD coverage
t/14_gzipped_content.........ok
t/50_davis_zerolength........ok
t/51_santos_status...........ok
t/52_reiss_bad_length........ok
t/53_response_parser.........ok
t/54_hzheng_head_redir.......ok
t/55_reiss_double_resp.......ok
t/56_redirect_excess.........ok
t/57_joel_immed_cancel.......ok
t/58_joel_cancel_multi.......ok
t/59_andy_one_keepalive......ok
All tests successful.
Files=24, Tests=134, 117 wallclock secs ( 0.45 usr 0.25 sys + 31.83
cusr 4.49 csys = 37.02 CPU)
Result: PASS
2) eyrie:~/perl/poco-client-http% uname -a
FreeBSD eyrie.homenet 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: Sun Dec
30 21:50:28 EST 2007 troc@eyrie.homenet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RC20071223
i386
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