Re: [slackware-alphadevel] Bug report: fortune

From: Jesper Juhl (juhl@eisenstein.dk)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 02:39:56 PST


> > The 'fortune' program does not work correctly - it generates no output:
> >

> Okay, it's been placed on the list of things to do.

> Running a strace on fortune on both Intel and Sparc confirms that the
file
> descriptor thing is nothing to be worried about. An interesting note is
> that on Intel and Sparc, the call is _llseek(), whereas on Alpha it's
> lseek(). Those two functions also have completely different sets of
> arguments. Certainly something that demands further investigation...

Hmmmm, I'll bet it's the compiler who does this, interresting...

/Jesper



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