From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T03:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Errno::EOVERFLOW error with IO#read and IO#sysread


On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>>>
>>
>> your programs are so powerful daniel - they're overwhelming the
>> system!  maybe if you re-write in perl the system will be able to
>> handle them.
>
> Nope:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $file = "/proc/383/as";
>
> open(FH, $file) or die $!;
>
> my $buf = "";
>
> # Dies here with: Value too large for defined data type
> read(FH, $buf, 4, 0) or die $!;
>
> close(FH);
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>



/me kids

/dan needs more coffee ;-)


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