RE: use filetest anomaly

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Mitchell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 4:49 PM
> To: Matthew Persico
> Cc: Rafael Garcia-Suarez; pp; [email protected]; Persico, Matthew O
> Subject: Re: use filetest anomaly
> 
> 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/b376053de54af4268a31e5a
> > > 60d1f9e57db30af11
> > >
> > 
> > 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.
> 

Thank you. I have already worked around it in the calling code that used
it by checking for both with and without trailing slash. I can wait
5.10.1.


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