Re: [FWP] Re: Slurp weirdness

[Adam Rice <wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk>]

Quoting Etienne Grossmann (etienne@isr.isr.ist.utl.pt):
>   /dev files are also strange-behaved. I don't think you can open
> /dev/sequencer using perl's opening functions (I tried, and only
> succeeded by using a little xs).

Next time, try POSIX::open and POSIX::read (and possibly POSIX::lseek)
first. Those bypass Perl's IO stuff and whatever stdio/sfio/libio crap it is
layered over. I wish I'd thought of that before I wrote Linux::Netstat :-)

-- 
Adam Rice -- wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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