Re: use filetest anomaly

Dave Mitchell <[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 09:20:23PM -0500, Matthew Persico wrote:
> 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?

5.10.1 is still several weeks away.

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