From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-09-07T23:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/HPUX/syscall problem/bug

Hi,

At Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:10:57 +0900,
tad.bochan@bnpparibas.com wrote in [ruby-talk:111729]:
> If anyone on the list is running ruby on hpux 11+  with  a ruby
> version later than "ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [hppa2.0w-hpux11.11]",
> could you please try the following code to see if the problem/bug
> has been fixed in the later version ?.

syscall decides that an error occurred when a negative value is
returned.  Therefore it cannot be used for system calls which
return addresses.

-- 
Nobu Nakada