documentation bug in perlipc

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#850 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT850$

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From lyonsm@bob.globalmediacorp.com

Possible documentation bug in perlipc.
(Please ignore this if it's been fixed or if I'm wrong!)

In the section "Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers" the following example
is used​:

unless ( -S '/dev/log' ) {
die "something's wicked with the print system";
}

I could be wrong, but IIRC /dev/log belongs to syslogd and is unrelated
to the print system (/var/run/printer on my system).

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by markm at $Date: 1999/05/05 19:42:40 $.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd freefall.freebsd.org 4.0-current freebsd 4.0-current #0: $Date: 1999/05/05 19:42:40 $'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E'
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/lyonsm
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/lyonsm/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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From @rspier

[cleaning up old tickets]

patch against perl-current

Inline Patch

--- perlipc.pod.orig    Wed Jul 19 23:26:14 2000
+++ perlipc.pod Wed Jul 19 23:27:17 2000
@@ -839,3 +839,3 @@
     unless ( -S '/dev/log' ) {
-       die "something's wicked with the print system";
+       die "something's wicked with the log system";
     }

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From @floatingatoll

R.

diff -c /root/perl-current/pod/ /root/perl-patched/pod/perlipc.pod
*** /root/perl-current/pod/perlipc.pod Fri Apr 28 11​:19​:06 2000
--- /root/perl-patched/pod/perlipc.pod Sun Jul 23 01​:25​:31 2000
***************
*** 837,843 ****
  You can test for these with Perl's B<-S> file test​:
 
  unless ( -S '/dev/log' ) {
! die "something's wicked with the print system";
  }
 
  Here's a sample Unix-domain client​:
--- 837,843 ----
  You can test for these with Perl's B<-S> file test​:
 
  unless ( -S '/dev/log' ) {
! die "something's wicked with the log system";
  }
 
  Here's a sample Unix-domain client​:

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From @jhi

  unless \( \-S '/dev/log' \) \{

! die "something's wicked with the log system";

Thanks.

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

patch submitted to p5p

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From The RT System itself

patch submitted to p5p