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Id: 26345
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: IO-AIO
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dsteinbrunner [...] pobox.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 2.33
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sat Apr 14 11:07:13 2007 dsteinbrunner [...] pobox.com - Ticket created
Subject: fork test failure on FreeBSD 6
box: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 perl: This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int The following fork test failed on the FreeBSD 6 box I'm working with: t/04_fork.......ok 1/9Fatal error 'mutex is on list' at line 540 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/ thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 2) Confused test output: test 4 answered after test 5 Confused test output: test 5 answered after test 6 Confused test output: test 6 answered after test 7 Confused test output: test 7 answered after test 8 t/04_fork.......FAILED tests 3-4 Failed 2/9 tests, 77.78% okay I did not have issues on my Mac OS X 10.4.8 x86 box. Should I be concerned about this test failure?
  Sun Apr 15 01:50:31 2007 MLEHMANN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sat Apr 14 11:07:13 2007, dsteinbrunner@pobox.com wrote: Show quoted text
> box: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 > perl: This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int > > The following fork test failed on the FreeBSD 6 box I'm working with:
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> Should I be concerned about this test failure?
If you want to use fork in a program using IO::AIO, you should be very concerned, yes. The good news is that this is a bug in your operating system which is known and (I was told) fixed in response to a cpan-testers bugreport, so upgrading your OS will make it work.
  Sun Apr 15 01:50:40 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Apr 15 01:50:43 2007 MLEHMANN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'