> > 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...
Ah! An interesting point. Both the Intel and Sparc versions were built
using gcc 2.95.2 and glibc 2.2. Our version was not. This is all very
strange, because I could swear that it was working at some point in the
past.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
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