Am Freitag, den 30.05.2008, 23:16 +0300 schrieb Niko Tyni: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:31:11PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > A user reported an issue with cvsweb in http://bugs.debian.org/483442. I > > was able to track it down to be in search_path(). This function takes a > > command as argument and tries with a list of paths, if $path/$command is > > executable (-x) and not a directory (!-d). > > > > Now this test fails with Perl 5.10, although cvsweb has all-executable > > permissions. Anybody an idea, why this fails? Using -X instead of -x > > seems to work for the moment. But testing on the effective uid/gid IMHO > > is the correct choice here. > > This is <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=49003>, > fixed upstream after 5.10.0. It only happens with 'use filetest > qw(access)'. Looks like we'll have to backport the fix, I'll clone > the bug to track that.
Many thanks for this information. > As a side note, the stat result cache "_" and 'use filetest qw(access)' > don't mix well together. See 'perldoc filetest'. You are right. Then I can just use -X instead of -x as long as the issue is not fixed in Perl. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
