Re: use filetest anomaly

"Matthew Persico" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2008/12/29 Matthew Persico <[email protected]>:
>> Perl   - 5.10.0
>> $ ls -la ~/foo
>> -r-xr-xr-x   1 persicom develop        0 Dec 28 21:15 /home/persicom/foo
>>
>> Perl   - 5.10.0
>> $ perl -e 'if (-x "/home/persicom/foo"){print "got it\n"}else{print
>> "no got it\n"}'
>> got it
>>
>> Perl   - 5.10.0
>> $  perl -e 'use filetest "access";if (-x "/home/persicom/foo"){print
>> "got it\n"}else{print "no got it\n"}'
>> no got it
>>
>> HUH?? What is borken about filetest "access" in 5.10? Where should I
>> report this? Any particular person, group or just use perlbug?
>>
>
> I believe that was fixed with :
>
> http://camel.booking.com/perl.git/commitdiff/b376053de54af4268a31e5a60d1f9e57db30af11
>

Hmm. Should I hand-patch that into my copy of 5.10.0, or is 5.10.1 imminent?

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Matthew O. Persico
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