Re: device name problems with extended charset and File::Spec
"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.ports.vms |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:39 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>
>> The bug is in vms.c, not File::Spec. These two one liners
>> demonstrate it:
>> EAGLE> perl -e "print 'true' if -w '/sys$scratch'"
>> EAGLE> perl -e "print 'true' if -w 'sys$scratch:'"
>> true
>> Something is wrong with the stat code. I will try to look at it
>> tonight.
>
> To be more precise, the problem has to be in the perl_cando code.
>
>> In file::spec->_tmpdir() the -w test is used to make sure that the
>> temp directory is writable, and it falls back to "." if it can not
>> find one of '/tmp', '/sys$scratch', or $ENV{tempdir} as writable.
Thanks. The blead build is currently broken so don't synch first.
Hopefully we'll get it all sorted out soonish.
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