FreeBSD 3.2

[Mick Dwyer]

> 
> I've been having some trouble with erlang 47.4.1 + Mnesia on
> FreeBSD 3.2. It appears as if pwrite() isn't working
> correctly on FreeBSD 3.2.
> For example the following program coredumps.
> 
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/uio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> main() { pwrite(0, "abc", 3, 0); exit(0); }
> 
> The call to pwrite() should simply fail (0 is not a seekable device), 
> not coredump.

The above code works on my 3.2 box. (FreeBSD amber.serc.rmit.edu.au 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul  7 13:41:45 EST 1999     root@REDACTED:/usr/src/sys/compile/FBSDX  i386)

However, the code does not link on 2.2.8 or 3.1-RELEASE.

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Mick Dwyer

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