Bug #75181 for IO-Pager: Cross-platform (windows) suckitude

These issues are integral to Windows. The software probably works right, but you're using it in very unexpected ways. The first failure i analyzed was 09-open: It fails the test that tries to open a process that pipes to devnull. This generates an error on linux because the lack of permission to pipe to devnull prevents the process from being created. On Windows it generates an error too, however that error comes from inside the child process itself and triggers when the child tries to write. As such the child process is created and IO::Pager does not recognize the error. Additionally: The error triggered on Windows is not a simple command line exception, but actually a popup window from the network security subsystem which forbids access to NUL. So my suggestion would be: Either skip this test or try to pipe out to something else, like a non-existing program, and use Capture::Tiny to grab any output to STDERR. Meanwhile 08-redirect has two issues, the quotes are different on windows, and file locks are very exclusive on windows. Both of these are fixed in this paste of the test script: https:// gist.github.com/68196767a3bc3c3e02a1 If you provide me with a repo link (preferrably github) i'll happily give you patches.

I am working on another update, and will look into incorporating this. Thanks!

I look forward to seeing the fix, as I think this is the only module whose failure would prevent Sqitch from making it into the ActiveState PPM repository (once I have my own bugs fixed, that is). Are we likely to see fixes soon? Reference: http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Pager.html#IO-Pager-0.24 Thanks, David