open vs. sysopen SOLVED (partially)

Hello again,

The problem is solved, but I have to confess I still don't know what was causing it.
I followed sgifford's idea and oddingly got 513 as a result. On all systems, I got access to, the result was 577.

As I had to finish the code and have it working by this afternoon, I gave up proper debugging and blindly reinstalled relevant modules. (I know, I know - shame on me!)
Fresh Fcntl.pm install fixed my problem.
It wasn't an issue with the Perl binary package in Slackware - default package was removed and Perl 5.8.2 was installed from the source code.
I cannot guarantee nobody was messing with Fcntl.pm module (not only I have access to this system), but it seemed to me so improbable and absurd that I didn't bother with checking it.

Anyhow, I would like to thank all of you for your help and ideas, and also say sorry for not fixing it the proper way finding the source of the problem.

Unfortunatelly this time (even though the problem is fixed):
sheep - perl : 0 - 1
But I will see you again perl!

-sheep

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Re: open vs. sysopen SOLVED (partially) by melora (Scribe) on Aug 23, 2004 at 16:05 UTC
Not to re-open an old wound, but I ran across something this weekend which might be relevant: I was porting a Perl script which I wrote from Win32 systems to both MacPerl and to FreeBSD, and found that my open calls, such as `open(FH, '>', 'Myfile.txt');` [download] needed to be rewritten as `open (FH, '>Myfile.txt');` [download] The error message I was getting was "too many arguments", so this may be something entirely different from the above problem, but it did make me come back and have a look at this thread. Anyway, here it is, just in case it helps someone.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: open vs. sysopen SOLVED (partially) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 23, 2004 at 19:30 UTC
Sorry? Are you saying that you couldn't use the 3-arg open on Win32? If so, could you post an example program that demonstrates that. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]