Hello Monks,

I've been using a script with File::ReadBackwards for some time now, but all of a sudden, I'm getting this error: 
Negative length at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/File/ReadBackwards.pm line 168.

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Here's what line 168 in ReadBackwards.pm looks like: 
166 # read in the next (previous) block of text
167 
168   my $read_cnt = sysread( $handle, $read_buf, 
      $read_size ) ;

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I've searched this site and Google and can't find a solution. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Dru

In reply to Problem with File::ReadBackwards by Dru

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