With your fix and perl 5.005.02, at the beginning I get: Useless use of a constant in void context at prog/detect/sensors-detect line 1345. which doesn't s top the script, but later on (just after saying YES to ISA bus scan) Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_BINARY, used at prog/detect/sensors-detect line 1343. and the script stops. So how do we get this to work on older perls? Jean Delvare wrote: >>>Could be... But there is one last thing I would like to try. My >>>changes(-k3) don't seem to have had any effect, so I'm trying >>>something similar but different. Please get >>> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/sensors-detect-k4 >>>and tell me, again, it it behaves differently with and without an >>>UTF-8 locale. >> >>That seemed to fix it!!! > > > "Ah ah ah (evil laugh) you nasty little bug, you thought you could lurk > forever? Diiiiiiiie!" > > Ahhhh I feel better :) For the ones interested, the solution was to call > binmode(IOPORTS, ':raw') after opening '/dev/ports'. The ':raw' keyword, > among other things, prevents Perl from using the UTF-8 layer on file I/O > (where available). I did not find this first because I don't have Perl > 5.8.0 on my development machine, and this layers thing is new in 5.8.0. > I was told on IRC to have a look at the binmode perldoc page on Perl > 5.8.0, which I did, and it led me to the solution. > > Ok Jim, thanks a lot for your help again. I'll commit a clean fix to > sensors-detect to CVS today. >
