[Rd] lstat and NFS server not responding

[Paul Gilbert]

>Do you know what was doing it?  Since R CMD build is basically a Perl
>program, I can only guess that Perl was doing this, and it looks like a
>Perl quirk/bug that perhaps you need to track down and report (if your Perl
>version is current).  One thing I did notice is that the R scripts use
>Cwd::getcwd in Perl when the manual page recommends Cwd::cwd, and reading
>the code suggests Cwd::getcwd is the culprit.  (Any explanation,
>Fritz/Kurt?)

Yes, I'm almost certain it is in the Perl but I don't know much more than that. I'm
using Perl version 5.004_04 built for sun4-solaris.

Paul Gilbert

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