On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:44:40PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble with Perl 5.8.6-4 under Cygwin 1.5.12.
> >
> > $ perl -e 'exit !(-r $ARGV[0])' /cygdrive/c/Program\
> > Files/ThinkPad/Utilities && echo "yep"
> > $ test -r /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/ThinkPad/Utilities && echo "yep"
> > yep
> >
> > Is this behavior by design, or does perl actually check ACLs and something
> > is wrong with my installation?
> > Igor
>
> perldoc -f -r:
>
> The interpretation of the file permission operators "-r", "-R",
> "-w", "-W", "-x", and "-X" is by default based solely on the
> mode of the file and the uids and gids of the user. There may
> be other reasons you can't actually read, write, or execute the
> file. Such reasons may be for example network filesystem
> access controls, ACLs (access control lists), read-only
> filesystems, and unrecognized executable formats.
>
> You can try the filetest pragma: use filetest 'access';
> see perldoc filetest.
I see. So basically this isn't likely to change in Perl, and so is a bug
in the program that uses -r here. I'll report this as a bug, then.
Thanks,
Igor
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