in reply to Re: Re: perl io and linux issues
in thread perl io and linux issues
After a little digging it appears not to be a problem with
linux per se but glibc 2. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
Fast stdio io in perl uses the hooks _ptr and _cnt
specified in the normal stdio.h. Unfortunately _cnt is not
visible in the glibc 2 version. I've seen mentions of a
glue.c file in glibc source that may allow a work around.
If this is a glibc 2 then there may be future problems on other platforms, or do other platforms that use glibc 2 and have fast perl io, have a modified stdio.h?
Perhaps sfio allows such direct hooks, has anybody else made progress on this issue?
regards dino
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